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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 Vanzant

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
If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
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Disappoint Forget Goodness Insult Let Go Remember Yourself
Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
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Direction Listening
Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.
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Attention Focus Identify Possible Worth 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
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
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
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
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
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
Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.
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Deep Fall Hard Time Live Need
With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.
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Expectation Life
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
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Inspirational Lose 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
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
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
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
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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Change Hard Healing Hope Hurt Reason
If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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Big Need 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
We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
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Live Love Need Ourselves Willing
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
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Acceptance Development Growth Happiness Love Responsibility 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
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
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
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Absence Life 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

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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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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