Feeling Stuck Quotes

“If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit of trash on the street outside your home, go walk the dog again, go bake a peach cobbler, go paint some pebbles with brightly colored nail polish and put them in a pile. You might think it's procrastiantion, but - with the right intention - it isn't; it's motion. And any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“There’s never one right path. There are thousands of versions of your life where you have the most fantastic time. You can never choose all of them. But you can realise when you’re feeling stuck and take a small step in a different direction. Even when you have no idea where you’re going, you can follow your curiosity, just to see where it takes you. You don’t need a calling or grand mission. It’s more than enough to make your life a gentle pursuit of love, joy, and curiosity.”
― Lucy Fuggle, Your Life in Bloom: A Manual on Courage and Finding Your Path for When You Need it Most

“Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“A bad break is no excuse for staying stuck where you are.”
― Germany Kent

“It’s so hard to write a new story when you do everything by the book.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Gratitude is fertilizer for our dreams. The more we are grateful, the more the Universe gives us to be grateful for.”
― Lee Papa

“Perhaps that’s all that purgatory is—prolonged death throes.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I may say and think and believe one thing, but in the end, I'm going to do what I feel.”
― W. Allen Morris, All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters

“You aren’t stuck as the person you were as a child, or at the turn of adulthood. You’re not a finished product. You’re living your life in just one of an infinite number of ways, as a single shade of the person called You. The most fascinating work of a lifetime is charting the course of your own evolution.”
― Lucy Fuggle, Your Life in Bloom: A Manual on Courage and Finding Your Path for When You Need it Most

“[If you think you're lost in life] even though your mind didn't know it, your soul has never been lost. It knows exactly where it's going, and if your ego will step out of the way and allow you to be guided, you will move directly towards you purpose in life.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“There is no such thing as a bad emotion - the only bad emotions are stuck emotions.”
― Lillian Bridges, Face Reading in Chinese Medicine