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"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
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"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."
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Personal Development
"Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others " How did you get that bruise? " would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't."
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Personal Development
"Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known."
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Personal Development
"I'm safe inside this container called me."
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Personal Development
"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others."
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Personal Development
"Hey, Beautiful, There is room for all that you are and everything you have to offer our world. Share yourself."
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Personal Development
"Don't destroy yourself over somebody else's foolishness. I know they betrayed you. I know they lied on you. I know they talked behind your back and told all of your business. I know they hurt you to the core. I know they turned their back on you. I know they cheated on you. I know they mislead you. I know, I KNOW. In spite of it all, you have to know that you are worth more than what they dished out to you. You will survive! You will make it through! Remember who YOU are and know YOUR self - worth!"
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Personal Development
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
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Personal Development
"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles."
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"Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else."
Conflict
"Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks."
Society
"They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp."
Freedom
"We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives."
Morality
"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
Relationship
"I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
Identity
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."
Empowerment
"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along."
Faith
"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
Life
"How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it."
Happiness
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