Top 90 Heidi Priebe Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “At the end of the day, you have two choices in love – one is to accept someone just as they are and the other is to walk away. There is no in between. There is no bartering, bargaining, expecting and falling short in love. There is just choosing to be there or to not. Anything in between is a tired, self-interested excuse for love.”

— Heidi Priebe

2. “When you’re tired, go slowly. Go quietly. Go timidly. But do not stop. You are tired for all the right reasons. You are tired because you’re supposed to be. You’re tired because you’re making a change. You are exhausted for all the right reasons and it’s only an indication to go on. You are tired because you’re growing. And someday that growth will give way to the exact rejuvenation that you need.”

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3. “Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you still have to live in its city of ruins. And no amount of anger is going to reconstruct that city. You have to do it yourself.”

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4. “To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.”

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5. “In a world full of dishonest people, you choose not to become one of them, even if that makes you lose a foolish game or two.”

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6. “7. The way you treated yourself most of your life Every flaw you picked apart inside the mirror. Every lie you told yourself about your limitations. Every “I am not good enough” thought that ever flitted through the recesses of your mind, settling into a place where it mattered. We have to forgive ourselves for not being our own best friends, our own confidants and our own biggest cheerleaders. We didn’t know what a difference it would make to love ourselves, until we finally did.”

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7. “You are so much more than the person who nobody texted this morning. You are encompassing. You are fierce. You are a blazing, roaring fire in a world full of people who’ve been burnt.”

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8. “Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was.”

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9. “We owe it to ourselves to live the greatest life that we’re capable of living, even if that means that we have to be alone for a very long time.”

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10. “You are the flame, not the moth. And your job is to burn with conviction.”

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11. “You need to be alone when you are not at home with yourself.”

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12. “Please delete my number – because I’m deleting yours. And you can find someone new to text your maybes to.”

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13. “The people we meet at the wrong time are actually just the wrong people. You never meet the right people at the wrong time.”

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14. “We have to start appreciating all that we bring to our own lives. Because the ironic truth is, you are most attractive when you’re not worried about who you’re attracting. When you’re living your life confidently, freely and without restraint, you emit the kind of energy that it just isn’t possible to fake. The kind of energy that’s capable of transforming not just.”

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15. “Because some people simply are not meant to stay forever. Some people come into our lives for a season, for a reason, for the simple purpose of showing us the world in a way we would never have seen it otherwise.”

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16. “You don’t have ADHD, you have ENFP.”

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17. “You never meet the right people at the wrong time because the right people are timeless. The right people make you want to throw away the plans you originally had for one and follow them into the hazy, unknown future without a glance backwards.”

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18. “Please delete my number – because I don’t want to delete you. Because I want you with a certainty that you will perhaps never possess.”

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19. “Take a chance on me. Because the timing’s always going to be wrong and the stars are never going to align but I would break every clock in this city and I’d shut every star down from shining if it meant that for one afternoon we could cast all that aside and give in. Give in to the complete impossibility that something could work here, despite everything that stands in the way.”

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20. “Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”

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21. “The INFP’s quest for perfection before action is a thoroughly impossible one, which can easily eat up years of their lives if they’re not careful.”

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22. “If there’s one thing we all need to stop doing, it’s waiting around for someone else to show up and change our lives.”

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23. “We don’t talk about our huge, overwhelming, most shameful failures because we don’t want to admit what they reveal about who we are. But therein lies the choice – you get to decide, after every failure, every defeat, every life-altering mistake – what kind of person you are. What kind of person you’ve been.”

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24. “Don’t be afraid to follow your heart or to do the work you are truly called to do. Don’t buy into the common social constructs of ‘achievement’ or ‘success.’ You define those things differently. And that’s a good thing.”

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25. “For Every Fierce Woman Who Has Tried To Be Tame I know you. I know that you have always felt different –a little bit more restless than perhaps you ought to be as a child. A little less timid, a tad bit too brash. I know you’ve grown up with inklings of suspicion –that your mind does not work the way it should, perhaps. Your thoughts whirl around at strange speeds and you cannot seem to reel yourself in.”

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26. “And for better or for worse, we are all in this life thing together.”

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27. “I’m currently working as a social worker in addictions counseling. I’m very happy to see such intimate sides of people and support them in their growth. I draw a sense of meaning out of being that close to life – all of its beauty and its ugliness. After all, my greatest aspiration is to make my community a better place to be in.” –Salome, 26.”

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28. “Who you are doesn’t cease to exist because there’s nobody there to admire it.”

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29. “Because growth and letting go are so complexly intertwined that we often only see one or the other. We forget that they can exist side by side – releasing the old while letting in the new.”

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30. “ENFPs feel and experience life on an incredibly deep level – they are constantly picking apart new experiences to decipher their meaning and determine their significance. This type may seem wildly extroverted to others, but they often feel the most in touch with themselves when they are alone. Their solitary world is where the ENFP goes to make sense of the lives they are living and process what their experiences truly mean.”

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31. “Because the truth about the timing being wrong is that it’s nothing more than the world’s flimsiest reason not to try. It’s the simplest excuse to pack it in. It’s a pre-designed reason to bow out. Saying that the timing is wrong is saying nothing more than ‘You aren’t worth any inconvenience.”

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32. “I find joy in seeing ENFP’s react to things. It seems to always be a genuine and incredibly animated reaction, it’s amazing.” –Quincy, INTJ.”

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33. “Go out with the certainty that you gave it everything you had and didn’t hold anything back. Go out empty-handed when it comes to should-haves and might-have-beens. Because it’s an infinitely more fulfilling way to live than the alternative. It will always be more honorable to be out in the field getting trampled on than to be on the sidelines feeling superior for never having tried.”

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34. “Refuse to be tamed. Refuse to flicker down into a meagre, burnt-out coal because somebody else is not tending to your flame.”

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35. “We don’t ever lose people we love in their entirety and perhaps we never should – we ourselves become bigger, more encompassing people because of it.”

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36. “We won’t always get a glorious comeback from our mistakes – and so we shouldn’t. Some failures aren’t about bouncing right back up and giving it another go. Some failures are about genuine change. Intensive self-reflection. And coming to the deep understanding that you can’t go on living the way you have been.”

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37. “Here’s what I urge of you if you did not receive a good morning text today: Don’t forget about what makes you incredible. Don’t let your own intricacies slide. Because the loveable parts of you are not gone –I absolutely promise you that much.”

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38. “The right people don’t make you hmm and haw about whether or not you want to be with them; you just know. You know that any adventure you had originally planned out for your future isn’t going to be half as incredible as the adventures you could have by their side. That no matter what you thought you wanted before, this is better. Everything is.”

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39. “The INFP is often significantly happier than they let on – they just prefer to process and experience that happiness internally, rather than rubbing it in other people’s faces.”

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40. “You need to be alone when you are growing into a new version of yourself. When you are shedding the layers of who you’ve been like snakeskin, you will need the time to bury who you’ve been.”

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41. “INTJ: Present them with a completely unprecedented way of thinking about something they were previously decided on. You’ll shake their foundation and win their admiration. ESFJ.”

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42. “To love without expectation, you learn what’s not in your control. You understand that everyone has their own demons and nobody owes it to you to fight them.”

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43. “We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we’re happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it’s okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.”

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44. “Constantly contradicting yourself because you genuinely see multiple sides to most situations.”

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45. “There are a thousand minute intricacies that make up the tapestry of who you are and not a single one has ceased to exist since the last time that somebody loved you.”

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46. “Because maybe doesn’t mean, “This may happen.” It means, “I am too fearful to go but not strong enough to stay.” It means, “I’ll miss you but not enough to be with you.” It means, “I love you but not quite enough to stick around and fight.”

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47. “Because the truth is that good morning texts are more than a half-hearted means of communication. They are a sign that we are thought of. Cared for. Adored, by someone who may not be immediately present.”

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48. “Love is wonderful and worthwhile and enriching but it should never be a standoff between the person and the life that you want.”

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49. “We have all fallen for temporary people. They come as swiftly as they go from our lives; with their reeling minds and striking bodies and genuine, wide-open hearts. They are hurricanes and madness and wrecking balls; they’re sunshine and blissful surrenders.”

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50. “Someday you’ll understand that you can be all of those things alongside somebody else. But first and foremost, you need to learn to be them all alone.”

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