Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.
IYANLA VANZANTIt takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.
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Their issues are not your issues.
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When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.
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Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.
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When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
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Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
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When you don’t show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you’re not. Then when they find out who you are, that’s when they leave.
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Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.
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When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.
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Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
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I am the one I have been looking for.
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If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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The only thing that goes on in your life is what your allow to go on in your life.
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Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.
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Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
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When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
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