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"I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a child. How lucky he felt to be the one to have discovered me, to have me. I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic."
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"Don't ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world."
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Personal Development
"You alone have the power to determine your value. Don't let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You're priceless."
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Personal Development
"When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one."
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Personal Development
"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."
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Personal Development
"Encourage yourself that you are good enough to be the owner of your own storehouse. Colour your world, redesign your mental pictures about yourself! Dream big and manifest the dreams!"
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Personal Development
"You choose who gets your attention, and you don't have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period."
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"You are a unique masterpiece, stop comparing yourself to others."
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"Never forget to remind yourself each and every day, that your presence on earth is very important, and will forever matter."
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"It is quite unfortunate that some people hate their lives so much that they have to talk down on others in order to feel good about themselves."
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"No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself."
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"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."
Self-Control
"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."
Healing
"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."
Healing
"The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire."
Self
"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
Rest
"But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was."
Truth
"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."
Possibility
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
Courage
"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."
Tradition
"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."
Nature
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