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"No matter how much you care about someone, you can't take responsibility for their happiness."
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"Move away from Machiavellian hearts. Manipulative people can frame you up even if you have a humble, simple and generous heart. Question their motive."

"I'll share my life with you. But, not my doughnuts."

"I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threads like a Taser gun. I'd stun them. They'd bow to me. I'd let my no echo against the mountains.And better to feel bad for a moment saying no-and stop it-than to get harmed.I would take better care.That small word, no. I'd see its deity."

"The small word, "No. I'd see its deity."

"It took me almost two thousand miles in the woods to see I had to do some hard work that wasn't simply walking-that I needed to begin respecting my own body's boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. Ones that were sound in my mind and therefore impermeable, and would always, no matter where I walked, protect me. Moving forward, I wanted rules.First-when I felt unsafe I'd leave, immediately. The first time, not the tenth time. Not after a hundred red flags smacked in wind violently, clear as trail signs pointing the way to SNAKES. Not after I'd been bitten-the violation. If I wasn't interested, I would reject the man blatantly."

"It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration."

"When she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back."

"He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop."

"I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen."

"The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside."
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"To be happy, you need to do the right thing for you, even when it feels like the hardest thing in the world."

"Multi-tasking is stressful. You will get things done much faster if you do them one at a time."

"Be generous with your time and energy. The harder it is to give, the more the other person deserves it."

"Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams and believe in your right to achieve your dreams."

"When you make a choice, acknowledge all the consequences. That way you won't be left feeling compromised."

"So many of life's eventualities are beyond your control. Work out what things you can influence and come to a peaceful acceptance of the rest."

"The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for."

"Don't take your happiness for granted. Be proactive about maintaining and sustaining it in your life."
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