Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.
STEVE PAVLINAIt’s a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won’t commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange.
More Steve Pavlina Quotes
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If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously.
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The universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
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If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
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Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
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Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
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Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
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I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
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Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
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I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
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Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
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It’s been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I’ve found this to be very true in my own life. If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.
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Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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