“It becomes different. More distant, I guess. The pain changes. It dulls. It’s always there, but it doesn’t always rip your heart out, you know?”
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“In this way, curiosity helps you step out of fear, and by doing so you rob the thing you’re afraid of of the power it has over you.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“I wince at the lack of compassion I showed myself, and at just how dangerous my determination and tolerance for pain can be when directed at the wrong target—in this case, martyrdom in a relationship where most of my core needs weren’t being met.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“it requires two people who actually have a vision for where they want the relationship to go, and the daily execution to move toward that vision. Exceptional relationships are not found. They’re built.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“If you have those teammate traits—if you’re the one who’s trustworthy, kind, committed, communicative, consistent, generous—then you’ve got the rare stuff that’s worth fighting for. It’s also the rare stuff you should protect. And if someone doesn’t recognize those qualities in you, they’ll never value what’s valuable in you. You should keep them at arm’s length until they do. In the meantime, they’re definitely not a person worth fighting for.”
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
― Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
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