Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “No, but I know how to make a Dr. Pepper cake,” I tell her confidently.”

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

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

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “Just call it salami!”

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214. “That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.”

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215. “Around this same time, I decided to cut my own bangs with my dad’s mustache scissors.”

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216. “The longer you live in a state of honesty, the easier it becomes to simply exist there all the time.”

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217. “In fact, I believe we can change the world. But first, we’ve got to stop living in fear of being judged for who we are.”

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218. “So when given the choice between crushing it at the office or barely hanging on at home, I got in the habit of working, working, and working some more.”

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219. “They reminded me what grace looks like and that we all have hard times. They reminded me that when things are the toughest, that’s when you should most be seeking out your partner. They reminded me who it is I want to be.”

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220. “I am one of the most organized people I have ever met, and even with all of my planning, I still am constantly forgetting things- or remembering them at midnight the night before they’re due.”

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221. “You have to choose not to compare.”

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222. “A lifetime of believing that your value – or lack thereof – is determined by your body or your face or your whatever means that you’ve got a lifetime of negative talk in your head playing on repeat. You need to replace that voice with something positive. You need to replace that voice with the opposite truth – the thing you most need to believe. So come up with a mantra and say it to yourself a thousand times a day until it becomes real.”

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223. “I am still here because I didn’t allow the hard time to make me weak; I willed it to make me strong.”

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224. “Our judgments keep us from building a stronger tribe.”

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225. “It’s going to be a journey and you’re going to have to fight to get where you want to go, but it’s also going to be worth it.”

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226. “The dreams of your childhood aren’t easy to ignore or to leave behind. They’re the most powerful because you design them without boundaries or limits. It’s what makes growing up so hard, because even though life has shown you different, it’s hard to forget that there was a time when you believed anything was possible.”

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227. “I care more about changing the world than I do about its opinion of me.”

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228. “You were made to have the dreams you’re afraid of having. You were made to do things that you don’t think you’re qualified for. You were made to be a leader, You were made to contribute. You were made to make changes for good, oth in your local community and the world at large. You were made to be more than you are today and – this is the important part – your version of more might not look like my more, or hers.”

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229. “How many times have your children watched you give up on yourself over and over and over?”

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230. “Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.”

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231. “You’ve lived through tougher things than this. Don’t give up now!”

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232. “You’re not going to achieve anything if you don’t get comfortable with the idea of achievement.”

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233. “Imagine living your motherhood out from now until forever, without guilt.”

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234. “Nobody’s entire legacy is based on a single moment, but rather the collection of one’s experiences.”

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235. “But sister, please, please, please stop allowing your fear of getting it wrong to color every beautiful thing you’re doing right.”

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236. “I can’t even begin to keep up, and the stress of trying to do so can make me crazy.”

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237. “I can write down words and send them out into the world and hope they find a home. Or I can hide my light under a bushel because I’m too afraid someone won’t like the glare.”

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238. “We can simply adjust our posture to consider a wider, more inclusive community. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we speak. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we listen. If we adjust our posture, we will see the person, not the category they fall into.”

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239. “Finding your goal, focusing in on it, and learning to work to get closer to it every day is possible for anyone. Finding your goal takes some soul-searching and some clarity, but the other two? Having focus and being productive enough to get closer to where you want to go? Those are just habits. If you don’t already have them, it’s only because you haven’t developed them yet. Not because they’ll never be yours.”

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240. “Daca e sa-ti spun ceva, daca e sa te conving de ceva, acel ceva este ca esti facuta pentru mai mult. Esti facuta sa ai visurile pe care ti-e frica sa le ai. Esti facuta sa faci lucrurile pentru care crezi ca nu esti calificata. Esti facuta sa fii un lider. Esti facuta sa-ti aduci contributia. Esti facuta sa aduci o schimbare pentru totdeauna, si in comunitatea ta, si in lumea intreaga. Esti facuta sa fii mai mult decat esti astazi.”

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241. “I’ve even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.”

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242. “Early on in this career, though, I realized that a lot of women look at lifestyle imagery as what they should aspire to be.”

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243. “My uncertainty is proof that I was trying to grow.”

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244. “Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived – it’s meant to be lived. Seasons or instances will inevitably feel out of your control, but the moments when you feel like you’re drowning are supposed to be brief. They should not be the whole of your existence! The precious life you’ve been given is like a ship navigating its way across the ocean, and you’re meant to be the captain of the vessel.”

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245. “I’m not trying to develop a community of fans. I’m trying to develop a community of leaders.”

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246. “Go home and do nothing. Sit around, watch TV, spend an entire day on the sofa. Discover that your world doesn’t implode without you going a hundred miles an hour. Get up the next day and do it again.”

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247. “Ambition looks like waking up early; it looks like working after the kids are in bed. Ambition looks like adopting a willingness to admit to the things you don’t know and asking for help or doing the research or becoming your own best mentor. Ambition looks like you living in a way others won’t so you will have a life others can’t.”

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248. “Sometimes it was a small change and sometimes it was life-changing, but in every circumstance, I grew for having walked through it. Friends, it’s not about the goal or the dream you have. It’s about who you become on your way to that goal.”

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249. “The lie I used to believe was that my weight would define me, that it would speak volumes about who I was as a person. Today I believe it’s not your weight that defines you, but the care and consideration you put into your body absolutely does.”

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250. “I stopped comparing myself to other people, and I also stopped comparing myself to whomever I thought I was supposed to be.”

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