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If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.

Iyanla Vanzant

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
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
I am the one I have been looking for.
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner Self Love
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
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 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
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
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
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
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
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
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Absence Life 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
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
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
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

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