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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Marianne Williamson

I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
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Challenge Growth Lesson Ourselves Soul Trust
For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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Embrace Home Person Rejection Truth Yourself
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
Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.
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Moments Myself Observation Person Situation Teaching
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
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Forgiveness Greatness Healing Medicine Prevent
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
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Circumstance Key Limitation Thinking
Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.
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Change Deserve Embrace Energy Fall Pattern Rich
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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Choice Empowerment Instrument Love Ourselves
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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Different Failure Goodness Yourself
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
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Darkness Heart Monster Ourselves Philosophy Try Work World
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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Bad Character Responsibility Wound Yourself
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
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Angry Choice Forgiveness Mad Miracle Moments Ourselves People Replacement
You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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Circumstance Life Live Vision Yourself
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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Enough Greatness Inside Live Ourselves Philosophy
The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
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Expression Room True Wisdom Yourself
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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Electricity God Lamp
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Determination Fear Love Myself Represent
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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Heart Meaning Popularity Right World Yourself
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
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Healing Live Past Present
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.
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Big Change Embrace Ideas Possible Thinking Yourself
Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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Connection Divine Mindset Ocean Ourselves Philosophy Shine Sun Wave
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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Earth Experience Love Meaning Philosophy Purpose Reality
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
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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Forgiveness Miracle Past Present Surrender
Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.
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Fear Miracle Wait
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.
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Action Burn Consequence Forgiveness Karma
With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.
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Block Determination Miracle Ourselves Power Thinking Transformation

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

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