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"We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of."
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"Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting."

"Love yourself like you would a treasured love or a cherished child."

"As a woman, I see myself as a garden, and I see myself as the gardener of myself, I see myself forming and pruning and watering and nourishing all the flowers and trees and vines and leaves in me. There is a world within yourself, that has so much to offer! If only you would walk into it each day! We were not meant to save the world; we were meant to save ourselves! And in saving ourselves, we have saved worlds innumerable."

"Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself."

"We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of."

"Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I'm just through with the guilt. So this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans."

"Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion."

"Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed."
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"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."

"We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating."

"To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy."

"No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable."

"Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment."

"We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive-and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation."

"From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs."

"The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything."
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