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When pain knocks on your door, welcome it. Let it in. Sit with it. Have tea with it. Understand it. Then let it leave.

Najwa Zebian

I’d rather be disappointed by the truth than satisfied with a lie.
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Deep Disappointment Lie Satisfaction Truth
Take responsibility for the choices you could have made but restrained yourself from making.
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Choice Responsiblity Yourself
You may be a disaster for a day, a month, or a year. Just don’t be a disaster forever.
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Disaster Forever
My home will never welcome me if I don’t welcome me.
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Home never Self Love Welcome
When pain knocks on your door, welcome it. Let it in. Sit with it. Have tea with it. Understand it. Then let it leave.
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Door Knock Leave Pain Tea Understand
When you know what are you are doing and have a clear vision of where you are going, you will not need to chase opportunities. Opportunities will seek you. Happiness will chase you. And, instead of being a choice, you will be the one choosing.
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Chase Choice Choose Clear Happiness Motivational Opportunity Visioon
If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.
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Chance Choose Hope Let Go Treat
For them to see you shine, you must stay far away, for you are just like the sun, when you are too close, you light makes them blind. And when you are too far, they seek you. So let them seek you.
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Close Light Positive Seek Shine Sun
You don’t need to explain why you’re protecting your soul from harm. You really don’t.
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Explanation Protect Soul
Do you know what it feels like to be wounded and told that you caused the wound to yourself by choosing to be where the harm landed?
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Cause Choose Feeling Wound Yourself
It was the weirdest thing ever. I said to myself: why are people always so okay with not having me in their lives?
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Broken Heart Loneliness People Weird
To the heart in you, don’t be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don’t be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don’t be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don’t be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don’t be afraid to break.
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Afraid Break Feeling Healing Heart Love Ocean Positive Rage Shone Silence Sun
I am no longer defined by what happened to me, but by who I am.
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Be Yourself Happen Healing Overcome
Don’t judge people and expect them to stand by your side.
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Expectation Judgment People Stand
Broken wings are a sign of struggle and strength.
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Broken Motivational Sign Strength Struggle Wings
Don’t blame life for what you do. That is so selfish and ignorant on your behalf.
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Behalf Blame Ignorant Life Selfish
Self-love is loving yourself exactly as you’d love the person you love the most. And that love actually feels like love and looks like meeting your own needs.
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Feeling Love Need Self Love
Life is not fair, but we can choose to be fair humans even if life or other humans choose to be unfair to us.
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Choose Hard Time Human Life
You can draw a path for your life and have all of your goals set. You can change yourself as much as possible and change things around you just to reach those goals.
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Change Draw Goals Path Reach Yourself
Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That’s what they need.
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Healing Inside Let Go Pain
You were my home for so long. Now I realize that humans cannot be homes. If homes can leave, then they are not homes.
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Break Up Broken Heart Home Leaving
Keep your heart beautiful. The world needs that.
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Beautiful Heart Kindness Need World
I broke my soul trying to mend yours.
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Broken Heart Mend One Liner Soul
Never underestimate the power of fate. It can knock down the highest of goals that seem guaranteed in your life.
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Fate Goals Guarantee Life Power Underestimate
We don’t make ourselves compassionate; we are born compassionate.
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Born Compassion Ourselves
If you gave them once the love that they did not deserve, they will come back for more.
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Deserve Expectation Human Nature Love
Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.
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Acknowledgement Apologize Decision Deserve Forgiveness Pain Peace

When pain knocks on your door, welcome it. Let it in. Sit with it. Have tea with it. Understand it. Then let it leave.

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