Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There is a big difference between wanting someone’s opinion and needing their approval. The latter typically comes disguised as the former. We ask for an opinion because we are feeling unsure about something, and often, if we can find someone to agree, we somehow justify the idea as good or bad.”

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152. “I am to believe I am special, and how many other girls Brody has taken on similar lunches.”

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153. “If you’re lucky, your legacy will be a lifetime in the making.”

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154. “Exista sute de feluri de a invata sa inoti si unul foarte simplu de a te ineca – atunci cand nu esti dispusa sa recunosti inca de la inceput ca esti pe cale sa te ineci.”

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155. “Your life is supposed to be a journey from one unique place to another; it’s not supposed to be a merry-go-round that brings you back to the same spot over and over again.”

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156. “It’s usually our opposites who complement us best, because they’re the only ones who can balance us out.”

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157. “You’ve got to plan for your success. You’ve got to be intentional, and you’ve got to decide right now that you can be whoever you want to be and achieve whatever you want to achieve. You’ve got to believe it.”

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158. “I am one of the happiest gals you know because I choose it every single day. I choose to practice gratitude; I choose to surround myself with things and people who support positivity.”

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159. “When I’m in charge, I can live whatever life I want.”

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160. “Be strict about your goal but flexible in how you get there.”

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161. “I don’t need to find anyone. Right now, in this moment, I’m my own hero.”

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162. “Your tribe is out there, and if you haven’t found it yet, I’d challenge you to consider that maybe your people come in a different package than you thought they might.”

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163. “She told me that whenever someone in my life consistently did something that upset me but I didn’t comment on it because I thought I was being selfish to admit that it was hurting me, that was where I needed a boundary. This.”

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164. “How many times have you bailed on yourself to watch TV? How many times have you given up before you’ve even started? How many times have you made real progress, only to face a setback and then give up completely? How many times have your family or friends or coworkers watched you quit? How many times have your children watched you give up on yourself over and over and over? This is not okay.”

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165. “Someone else’s opinion, or maybe your own, but either way, it is not grounded in any actual reality other than the weight you give it. So how much of your life are you living – or rather, not living – because you’ve been treating an opinion as a truth?”

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166. “Do you hesitate to admit your dreams aloud because you’re nervous about others making fun of you or judging you for your choices?”

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167. “No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.”

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168. “Maturity isn’t something you wrap around you like a coat. Maturity is like the T-shirt you get for walking in a 5K: you can only put it on if you go through the experience first.”

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169. “We have chocolate in common – that’s enough.”

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170. “Recognizing the lies we’ve come to accept about ourselves is the key to growing into a better version of ourselves.”

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171. “Like most working moms, my life is a constant juggling act.”

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172. “You always feel behind and overwhelmed.”

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173. “The God who made the moon and the stars and the mountains and the oceans, the Creator who did all of those things, believed that you and your baby were meant to be a pair. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be a perfect fit. That doesn’t mean you won’t make mistakes. It does mean that you need not fear failure because you can’t fail a job you were created to do.”

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174. “I recognized a great truth: if I wanted a better life than the one I’d been born into, it was up to me to create it.”

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175. “The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either.”

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176. “I will not tell her that a man’s work is only out in the world or that a woman’s work is inside the home. If she chooses to stay at home, then we will support her with all our hearts; but we will never teach her that there’s only one kind of woman to be.”

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177. “I don’t believe that other people, no matter how much they care about me, will every truly know what goes on in my life and therefore, they don’t get any say in how I live it.”

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178. “I looked for joy. I looked for peace.”

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179. “You understand that just because you’ll keep waking up each morning doesn’t mean that it won’t cost you something to keep going.”

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180. “We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men. If it’s not true for everyone, then it shouldn’t be true for anyone.”

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181. “Work just as hard for fun moments, vacation moments, and pee-your-pants-laughing moments as you do for all the other things. I encourage you to take a walk, call a friend, have a glass of wine, enjoy a bubble bath, or take a long lunch. All of that work will be there when you get back, and a little time away can recharge your batteries and give you the energy to battle that ever-growing to-do list.”

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182. “I indulge in silliness. I color with my boys. I draw on the ground with sidewalk chalk. I watch YouTube videos about how to do shimmery, smoky eyes and try to replicate it even if I have nowhere to go. I reach for silly, creative endeavors that serve no real purpose other than joy.”

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183. “I know what it feels like to want to change every single thing that made you who you were, as if becoming someone new might give you power over the mistakes you made.”

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184. “Failure means that you’re living. Failure means you’re trying.”

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185. “You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.”

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186. “Sis, don’t be afraid of failure. Be afraid of never achieving anything at all because you were too afraid of what others might think of you for trying.”

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187. “As an artist or a creator, you have to decide. You have to choose a path or live the rest of your life slowly killing your ability to do great work for fear of what others will think. You have to decide that you care more about creating your magic and pushing it out into the world than you do about how it will be received.”

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188. “Consequently, when I began to understand that the entire purpose for my life wasn’t to please someone else, I began to consider things I hadn’t before. Like, what if I could make decisions for myself? What if I stopped making every choice in my life about what would please others most? What if sometimes I just did what I wanted to do? What if I stopped asking permission?”

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189. “No, but I know how to make a Dr. Pepper cake,” I tell her confidently.”

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190. “Not because I’m especially gifted, but because I’m especially dedicated to improving along the way.”

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191. “Is your schedule populated by things that will make your life better, or is it dictated by everybody else’s wants and needs?”

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192. “Creating is the greatest expression of reverence I can think of because I recognize that the desire to make something is a gift from God. The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either. Every time I indulge in the art of creation without worrying about what the public will think of it is craft in its purest form – and craft can be any old thing at all. For me it’s writing.”

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193. “The issue wasn’t that I didn’t know who I was; the problem was that I didn’t know who I had allowed myself to become.”

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194. “Why do we say hello on Sunday mornings with the same tongues we use to lash others behind their backs a few days later?”

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195. “Allowing someone else to talk you out of your pursuits is quite possibly one of the hardest habits to break but one of the greatest behaviors to adopt.”

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196. “Magazines and TV shows spend a lot of time focusing on what to do when we fall off the wagon rather than teaching us how to stay on it in the first place.”

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197. “Anything other than death is temporary.”

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198. “If I want to achieve any new thing in my life, the question is never, Can I do it? The question is always, What am I willing to give up in order to get it?”

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199. “Maybe trying to live out your own love story means that you have less time to read about other people’s.”

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200. “Just call it salami!”

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