5 quotations to Sqoosh Your Inner Critic
Sat, Mar 7, 2009
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Here are a few more of my favorite quotations to Sqoosh Your Inner Critic, I hope they empower you as they have in my life! Enjoy!
1. “Don’t worry about what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and do that because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman
–> The world needs passionate people. When you do what makes you come alive, your passion gives others permission to do the same, and this brings deep healing and abundance to everyone in the world.
Amazing contributions come from passionate people who do what makes them come alive! 
2. “Often what we think are ‘wrong’ with us are only our expressions of our own individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet, there have never been two snowflakes alike or two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we accept this, there is no competition and no comparison. To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are.”
~ Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life
–> I like to read Hay’s words when my Inner Critic causes me to feel inferior compared to others because how I do things is “too different”, “odd”, “strange”, “eccentric”, or “not like normal people would do it”.
3. “One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it.”
~ Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
–> Once you turn towards passion and what to do for a living that incorporates what you’re passionate about, you might experience your inner critic telling you useless things like “you might be passionate about it, but you’re not that good at it!” You might also ask yourself “what are my talents?!” Only to draw a blank. Pavlina’s quote is useful in these situations (among many others!)
4. “All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of likes as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fullfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.”
~ Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People
–> This can be easy to forget in our society, where the focus is on results and everyone seems to identify you by “what you do”. I have to remind myself that “what I did” and “what I didn’t do” are not “who I am”. With this in mind, it is easier to forgive and accept yourself 
5. [ To be determined...by you?! ]
–> HELP!! When I came up with this blog post idea, I soon discovered that due to perfectionism and the “need” to keep all my books looking brand spankin’ new, none of my books were highlighted with my favorite quotes! 
You got me, I lied. 
I have only 4 to share with you today…
–>BUT, it’s no coincidence you’re reading this post, as the Law of Attraction brought you here today Blogs are about co-creation…if you have a powerful quote we would all appreciate you sharing it with us!! You can leave as many as you’d like in the comments box.
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1. “Don’t worry about what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and do that because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman
I like that one. I heard it first time from Joe Vitale
You’ll never change what’s in your hand until you change what’s in your head. – not sure whose quote are this one
Perfectionism is one of my virtues as well
Love the quotes that you are sharing here. They would most certainly be helpful to silent the inner self criticism that goes on in our heads.
Evelyn Lim’s last blog post…Making Sense Of Life Events
So, four quotes instead of five, but they are so wonderful, a fifth one is not needed to feel empowered by reading these : ))
Thank you.
Karen
@Karen,
You’re so sweet thanks so much for saying that
Yes sometimes things come in 4’s and not 5’s, heheh.
I’ve been studying up on numerology and actually 4 is the power number of stability, where 5 is instability (this is probably a very stripped down version of what each number means, but this is so far how I’m understanding it, lol)
Hugs!
Carlota