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When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

Iyanla Vanzant

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.
IYANLA VANZANT

Acceptance Moments Patience Right Yourself
When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.
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Empowerment Healing Story Yourself
It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
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Change Experience Growth Learning Limitation Mindset Opportunity Responsibility Thinking
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
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
When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.
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Hurt People Strong Yourself
You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.
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Acceptance Life Love Play Reality Role 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
It’s important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story.
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Experience Freedom Healing Important Ourselves People Story Yourself
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
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Absence Life Yourself
You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid.
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Feeling Right 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
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
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
Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.
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Fear Impossible Need Recognition Wisdom
If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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Big Need Yourself

When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

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