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"In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole."
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"When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind."
Philosophy
"I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good."
Relationship
"If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
Empathy
"We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude."
Solitude
"Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me."
Emotion
"You can forget how to hate, but you can never forget how to love."
Emotion
"I looked at my life and for the first time felt like I could hold it all. That I didn't need to let go of anything in order to be whole. That even those things I'd been clinging to had a place in my freedom. That every single thing played its role."
Life
"You don't have to change yourself to meet the expectations of others. CIOs who not only accept you, but celebrate you for who you are. Give your time and energy to the ones committed to truth, the brave souls working toward a life of authenticity. Let that be your tribe, and you their family. Open yourself to connections formed from a pledge to be real."
Identity
"Compassion grows in the recognition that we are all the same.If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
Compassion
"Share your gifts. Learn from the gifts of others.Stay open to whichever role - teacher and/or student - life is calling on you to play. And bring as much acceptance and love to each performance.When we walk through life as only a teacher, we miss out on learning from the world around us.When we walk through life as only a student, we miss out on sharing our unique vision of the world."
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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
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Personal Development
"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"
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Personal Development
"But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself."
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Personal Development
"I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey."
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Personal Development
"You disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ..."
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Personal Development
"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."
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Personal Development
"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
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Personal Development
"It's a difficult thing having a heart made of glass, people don't seem to realize how easily it shatters. How often I've swept up the pieces and carefully glued them back together."
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