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

Iyanla Vanzant

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
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
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.
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Deep Spiritual 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
You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.
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Affection Goodness People Self Love Support Time Yourself
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
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
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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Acceptance Wisdom 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
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
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.
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Deep Family Heart Broken Pain Place Safety
Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.
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Deep Fall Hard Time Live Need
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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Be Yourself Fall In Love Leaving People
Instead of running from what you don’t want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.
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Commitment Desire Focus Journey Run Walk Yourself
When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
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Healing Pain Story Yourself
With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.
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Expectation Life

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