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When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.

Iyanla Vanzant

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
Life doesn’t actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.
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Life Opportunity Yourself
Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.
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Need Ourselves Right Time Wrong
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
Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.
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Experience Live Ourselves Teaching Wisdom
When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.
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Hurt People Strong Yourself
Don’t get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it’s your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
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Challenge Hard Time Live People Story Victory 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
Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!
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Habit Self Love Smile 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
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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Change Choice Growth Time
Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
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Courage Focus Guilty Hide Live Mistake Shame Yourself
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.
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Acceptance Destroy Feeling Life Loss Recovery Self Love Worth Yourself
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
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Inspirational Lose Yourself
Their issues are not your issues.
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Issues Yourself
Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.
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Alone Blessing Breathe Heart Listening Yourself

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