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You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

Iyanla Vanzant

You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don’t choose to be.
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Direction Position Possible Power Yourself
Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.
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Courage Creation Live Ourselves Pain Stop Strength
To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don’t know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
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Growth Life Moments Willing
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure- put a period to- those experiences that you don’t want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you’re still growing and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
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Carry Experience Forever Growth Lesson Live Simplicity Talk
Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.
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Life Missing Need Wisdom Yourself
It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.
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Deep Listening Need Yourself
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.
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Better Oneself Smart Yourself
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
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Afraid Creation Mistake Regret Yourself
It 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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Acceptance Control Courage Fear Ignorance Let Go Resistance Struggle
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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Anger Believe Escape Experience Guilty Hold On Hurt Ourselves Reason Shame
If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
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Greatness Inspirational Life Live Mad People Potential Willing Yourself
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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Character Generosity Weakness Yourself
Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone’s purpose in life except yours.
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Job Purpose Yourself
Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you’re going to be disappointed.
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Dissappoint Wait Yourself
Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.
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Deep Fall Hard Time Live Need
Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
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Believe Reflection Thinking Worth Yourself
If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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Big Need Yourself
Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.
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Important Knowledge Moments Need Past Value
Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.
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Ability Education Learning Place Yourself
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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Commitment Decision Goodness Self Love Yourself
You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.
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Belief God Habit Patience Time Yourself
Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.
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Belief Light Patience Spirit Yourself
Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
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Enough Love People Respect Trust Truth
People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
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Live People Yourself
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
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Action Anger Breathe Kind Love Yourself
Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.
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Ability Doubt Embrace Fear Future Light Mistake Moments Past Yourself
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
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Inspirational Lose Yourself

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