There are times as we go through life that we feel like we are not enough. Times when we feel like our best just isn’t good enough; that who we are and the way we are can’t compare to the way anyone else is, and we start to beat ourselves up for being different.
In literature and books, we find that being different is not a bad thing, but an incredibly beautiful and unique thing, and it helps us realise that we are, in fact, more than enough exactly as we are.
Here are twelve quotes from books that remind us that we are enough.
1. “Sometimes it takes getting pushed to the very edge before you can find your voice and courage to speak out again. Sometimes it takes hitting that rock bottom to realize you’re done descending, and it’s time to rise. Sometimes it takes being told you’re nothing—being made to feel like you’re nothing—to help you see that you are complete.
YOU. ARE. ENOUGH.”
― Mandy Hale, You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
2. “If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
3. “Life has not been able to break me and it will not break you. Stand tall for you are loved, you are enough, you are able, and in the end we will survive.”
― Donna G. Bourgeois, Life with Ollie: The story of an only child of a single narcissistic parent
4. “I love myself. I am becoming myself. I am loved. I am enough.”
― Alex Clare-Young, Transgender. Christian. Human.
5. “What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
6. “Don’t allow other people’s opinion to dictate who you are supposed to be. Look within yourself and discover the amazingly unique, beautiful and strong person you actually are.”
― Sandra Cooze, Journey to Your Self – How to Heal from Trauma: Written by Someone Who Did
7. “I am a woman who can say I am enough and I am worthy. I found myself by helping others in the midst of my own pain. We can only give ourselves over to Him without borders, and without holding back, just like I am each day asking Him for direction and for strength. When I look at the women in the Bible, Tamar seduced her husband’s father and got pregnant with his child, Rehab was a prostitute, Bathsheba cheated on her husband and had a child by David and Mary Magdalene was an adulterous woman, yet Jesus looked into their souls and gave them a powerful story, that still today can be an example to us all. ”
― Chimnese Davids, Redeeming Soul
8. “Sometimes you have to realize that you’ve HAD enough to realize that you ARE enough.”
― Mandy Hale, You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
9. “You always seem to think you have to change, you think you have to improve yourself, to be like everyone else, to fit in, but can’t you see you’re perfect just the way you are?”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop
10. “You’ve got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn’t define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don’t have to struggle to be good enough for.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
11. “If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
― Criss Jami, Healology
12. “Maybe my best isn’t as good as someone else’s, but for a lot of people, my best is enough. Most importantly, for me it’s enough.”
― Lindsey Stirling, The Only Pirate at the Party
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