Below are some quotes to inspire you, along with some comments on how you can relate their meaning to your journey toward overcoming porn addiction.
“Hell on earth would be to meet the man you could have been”
Keith Cunningham
This is worth remembering every single day. Imagine you keep using porn for months and years . . . and then one day, you meet another version of yourself: the person who quit porn at this very moment and started transforming their life.
How would you feel seeing all the amazing things they’d achieved and experienced that you missed out on?
So every time you’re feeling tempted by porn, stop and think about the person you could become if you just say no and do something worthwhile instead.
“He who wants to grow a garden of roses doesn’t reserve a plot for weeds”
I remember reading something along these lines in an awesome book once, and it always stuck with me.
If you want to have an awesome life, fill it with only awesome things. When you do this, there’s no room left over to fit in the useless weed of pornography.
“When you want to be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful”
Eric Thomas
From everything I’ve seen, a lot of people struggle to quit porn simply because they don’t want it badly enough.
Don’t be like that. Make sure you have a huge list of strong reasons for quitting that get you fired up and give you the drive to smash through this challenge!
“Do or do not; there is no try”
Yoda
So many people contact me after subscribing and tell me they’ll “try” to stop using porn. And I generally reply with a quick pep talk about their choice of words.
The mindset “try” weakens you from the very beginning. The mindset of committing fully to doing whatever it takes to overcome porn addiction is a whole different ball game.
So stop “trying” right now. Step up, commit 100%, and do it!
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong
Shhh . . . don’t focus on what you think of Lance Armstrong these days. Just focus on what he said, because he’s right.
Overcoming porn addiction might be tough, but if you give up on your journey, the pain that porn causes you will never go away . . .
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit”
Napoleon Hill
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
Oprah Winfrey
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the many incredible things that overcoming porn addiction will do is to shape your character and give you a strength that makes any other challenges in life much easier.
The tougher the process is, the more benefit you’ll get from succeeding. It’s just like lifting heavier weights in the gym.
So every time you encounter a difficult challenge when quitting porn, re-frame it as an awesome gift that will ultimately build you into an even better person.
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again”
Buddha
“Your past does not equal your future”
Tony Robbins
These quotes give a great reminder that you can always start moving forward and making things better from wherever you are.
So no matter how much porn you’ve used, or how many times you’ve relapsed after resolving to quit, you can make the change right now to create a different future.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
Lao Tzu
If you’re feeling daunted by the idea of quitting porn for good, don’t focus on it too much. Just stay away from porn for today . . . and then do it all over again tomorrow.
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future”
Swami Sivananda
This is such sound advice. If you relapse, it’s very common to beat yourself up and feel like crap for hours or days.
But this won’t help you to progress (in fact, it can seriously slow your progress).
Instead, learn whatever you can from your relapse and resolve not to make the same mistakes again next time. Then put it completely in your past and keep moving forward afresh.
Oh, you want some more quotes by famous people about getting back up after failing and persevering until you succeed? Sure, here you go:
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up”
Vince Lombardi
“Failure provides the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently”
Henry Ford
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“There are countless times an inventor can give up on an idea. By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem.”
James Dyson
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never, Never, Never, Never give up.”
Winston Churchill
And for a different perspective on things:
“I heard about a high school in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses to graduate, and if they didn’t pass a course, they got the grade ‘not yet’, and I thought that was fantastic. Because, if you get a failing grade, you think ‘I’m nothing; I’m nowhere’, but if you get the grade ‘not yet’, you understand that you’re on a learning curve; it gives you a path into the future”
Carol Dweck
This is a great way to view your journey. Your goal is to stay away from porn, but if you happen to relapse, it doesn’t even mean you’ve failed. It simply means you haven’t succeeded yet.
“It’s not over until you win”
Les Brown
I think that speaks for itself :)
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