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What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
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“I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.”
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
“But there is a definite fork in the road with trauma. We can use it to make ourselves and others better by learning from it, or it can use us to make our lives and every life we touch worse by becoming a slave to it. My time had come to decide which way I was going to go.”
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
“I have heard many express feelings of not belonging, of anxiety and insecurity, of awkwardness and self-consciousness, of incompetence and unworthiness, of being out of place or having no place, of feeling they should be someone or somewhere else, and that they could be
living this other, better life if only 'everyone else' would see how smart or creative or special they really are. These feelings came not just from
those who had yet to find their life’s purpose, but also from those who had but were using their gifts detrimentally to divide, control, ridicule, and create fear rather than unite, heal, encourage, and empower. High self-esteem, meaning to have self-efficacy and self-respect, removes the obstacles to feeling appropriate to life.”
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
living this other, better life if only 'everyone else' would see how smart or creative or special they really are. These feelings came not just from
those who had yet to find their life’s purpose, but also from those who had but were using their gifts detrimentally to divide, control, ridicule, and create fear rather than unite, heal, encourage, and empower. High self-esteem, meaning to have self-efficacy and self-respect, removes the obstacles to feeling appropriate to life.”
― What It Looks Like: An Awakening Through Love and Trauma, War and Music, Sports and History, Politics and Spirituality
“I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
“She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away—like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn’t it also made her capable?”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment for the occasions when he did, since the other was so easy.”
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