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quotes to remember.

[mawea]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

[mawea]

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Jose Saramago

[mawea]

You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story.

[mawea]

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

[mawea]

Don’t be afraid of losing people,

Be afraid of losing yourself while trying not to lose someone else.

[mawea]

Blame - a way to discharge pain and discomfort.

[mawea]

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it is also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

[mawea]

Be willing to let go of who you think you should be, and be who you are.

[mawea]

Have the courage to be imperfect.

[mawea]

Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.

[mawea]

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

[mawea]

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

[mawea]

When everyone leaves it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

[mawea]

People know your name, not your story. They’ve heard what you’ve done but not what you’ve been through.

So take their opinion of you with a grain of salt. In the end, it’s not what others think, it’s what you think about yourself that matters.

Sometimes you have to do exactly what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else.

[mawea]

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life.. every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs. Keep going. Remember why you started.

[mawea]

You're not stuck. You're just committed to certain patterns of behaviour because they helped you in the past. Now those behaviours have become more harmful than helpful. The reason why you can't move forward is because you keep applying an old formula to a new level of your life. Change the formula to get a different result.

[mawea]

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.