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Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.

Marianne Williamson

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.
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Different Flower Garden Impression Rose Strive Struggle
Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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Appearance Fall Order Wonderful
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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Listening Ourselves Voice
You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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Heart Mindset People Talk Yourself
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
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Absence Darkness Fear Fight Light Replacement
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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Energy Glory Herself Possible Rise Woman
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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Change Fear Love Miracle Reality
Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.
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Expectation Old Preparation Repeat Yourself
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player.The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
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Heart Life Play Player Princess Purpose Queen Rule Serious Woman
Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
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Love Miracle Place Situation Yourself
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
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Choice Different Focus Life Right Wrong Yourself
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
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Learning Meaning Ourselves Question
Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
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Life Optimism Yourself
A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
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Assignment Choice Lesson Ourselves Relationship Walk
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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Mindset Return Revenge Thinking Violence

Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.

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Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.

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