Disney princesses are known for their beauty, kindness, and questionable taste in men. But wisdom? Apparently yes.
At some point, I realized that therapists and Disney princesses say a lot of the same things. Believe in yourself. Follow your heart. Be brave. Feel your feelings. Don’t let other people define you. The main difference is that one of us has a master’s degree and the other has a talking crab.
So I decided to make a quiz.
Some of these quotes come from Disney princesses. Others come from therapists and famous psychologists. And a few are mine, because my Disney princess career never really took off.
Think you can tell the difference?
Good luck. There are no singing woodland creatures available to help you.
#1. “Believe you can, then you will.”
#2. “Have courage and be kind. Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And when there is goodness, there is magic.”
#3. “A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
#4. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
#5. “Sometimes our strengths lie beneath the surface.”
#6. “The past shouldn’t be feared for it guides our future.”
#7. “Every life has a story. Every story changes us.”
#8. “Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.”
#9. “Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
#10. “It’s not until you lose everything that you can truly appreciate everything.”
#11. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”
#12. “It’s not about perfection — it’s about showing up, day after day, and choosing yourself even when it hurts.”
#13. “Step into your power, grow into something new.”
#14. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
#15. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
So, how did you do? If you correctly identified every therapist, psychologist, and Disney princess, congratulations. You have a very specific and completely useless superpower. If you bombed it, don’t feel bad. Apparently the line between solid therapeutic wisdom and something a Disney princess would say right before bursting into song is thinner than any of us realized.
