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.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSONWe were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.
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Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
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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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You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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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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We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
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