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“A slow me is much better than a sick me” (The Heart Principle Quotes)
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“All I can do is go forward, and to do that, I must stop chasing perfection. It doesn’t exist. I can never please everyone. It’s hard enough just pleasing myself. Instead, I must focus on giving what I have, not what people want, because that is all I can give.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“For that’s the only place where true perfection exists—the blank page. Nothing I actually do can compete with the boundless potential of what I could do. But if I allow the fear of imperfection to trap me in perpetual beginnings, I’ll never create anything again.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“He matters more to me than the voices in my head.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“Hearts aren’t designed to feel anything too intensely for too long, be it joy, sorrow, or anger. Everything passes in time. All colors fade.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“How much of what people say is genuine and how much is politeness? Is anyone really living their life or are we all reading lines from a giant script written by other people?”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I can’t brush it aside just because I don’t understand it. I can’t place judgement on it. Pain is pain. I know what it’s like to hurt and for others not to understand.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I do wonder if she’s acting just like I am. How much of what people say is genuine and how much is politeness? Is anyone really living their life or are we all reading lines from a giant script written by other people?”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I don’t life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that’s how it must be when someone’s standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I guess that’s how it must be when someone’s standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themself.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I hate his smile for how much I like it. I know it’s illogical, I know it’s cowardly. But I back away from him farther, shaking my head.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn’t give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough —for her, for me, for the people in my life.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I’m thinking I need to switch apps or narrow my search criteria when I come across Anna. Her picture is so sweet that I almost skip her on principle, but I keep looking because I can’t help myself.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“I’d like you to watch what you’re doing and saying, and if it’s something that doesn’t feel right and true to who you are, if it’s something that exhausts you or makes you unhappy, take a look at why you are doing it. And if there isn’t a good reason… tried not doing it.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“It’s like pricking yourself with a needle. Do it once, and you’re okay. You can ignore that it even happened. Prick yourself repeatedly without giving yourself time to heal, and soon you’re injured and bleeding.” (The Heart Principle Quotes)
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“It’s not winning the race that’s important. It’s this moment right here, when I’m lying in the mud staring up at the dark sky with rain falling in my eyes. It’s facing the pain, facing failure, facing myself, and finding a way to make it to the end.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“Just because something isn’t perfect doesn’t mean we need to throw it away.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“Nothing I actually do can compete with the boundless potential of what I could do. But if I allow the fear of imperfection to trap me in perpetual beginnings, I’ll never create anything again.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“People like me better when I make them feel good about themselves.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“Smiles are real when they reach your eyes.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“That’s how it must be when someone’s standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited ; they are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“That’s when I realize that I trust him. Over the past weeks, he’s proven time and again that he respects me, that he won’t hurt me. I can tell him things. Not because he doesn’t matter. But because he is kind.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“The harmless little lies that make people feel nice. They’re essential for getting along in society.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“The thing with feelings is they pass. Hearts aren’t designed to feel anything too intensely for too long, be it joy, sorrow, or anger. Everything passes in time. All colors fade.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“The truth is will never be as effortless as it used to be, not now that people have expectations of me. All I can do is go forward, and to do that, I must stop chasing perfection. It doesn’t exist. I can never please everyone. It’s hard enough just pleasing myself. Instead, I must focus on giving what I have, not what people want, because that is all I can give.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“They’d tell me to quit indulging myself and snap out of it. Tough love is our way. Being tough on myself isn’t working now, though. I can’t try harder than I already am.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“This yearning for her, this craving, it’s sunk so deep into me that it’s part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He’s crazy about this one girl.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“Tough love is brutally honest and hurts you to help you. Tough love cuts you when you’re already bruised and berates you when you don’t heal faster.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
“You’re not hurting anyone. If a diagnosis can help improve your life, it’s the right one for you, and only you can know that.”
Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle
