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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

Byron Katie

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown

It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

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