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"There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it."
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"People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts."

"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."

"When you build your life on a foundation of your authentic truth ~ you are fulfilled with joy and enduring peace, you feel you, the person you are meant to be."

"What good is an "I LOVE YOU If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?"

"I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them."

"Don't be afraid to show you soul, we need plenty of soul to show in this world."

"There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate."

"Just do you. The right people and opportunities will be drawn to that."

"Don't be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk everywhere with it.Be in the world but not OF it."

"I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me."
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"If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek."

"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."

"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."

"Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it."

"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
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