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#1

“Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: darkness, happiness, life, light, loss, tragedy

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#2

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#3

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
― Bernard Berenson

tags: consistency, development, growth, ignorance, nuance

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#4

“Growth is an unavoidable part of life. Whether we mean for it to happen or not, our bodies continually nourish and regenerate themselves, our minds continually learn and expand, and our lives continually evolve. We have the power to craft our growth the way a landscaper crafts a majestic garden, or we can leave it to chance, allowing it to unfold wild as the weeds that spread across a vacant lot.”
― Scott Edmund Miller

tags: cultivation, growth

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#5

“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: evolution, evolve, friends, friendship, growth, letting-go, moving-on, positive-thinking, seasonal-friendships, seasons, the-single-woman

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#6

“Changing yourself changes everything.”
― Bryant McGill, Existence

tags: change, growth, healing, outlook, personal-development, perspective, psychology, self-realization, transformation

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#7

“Growth is achieved when truth is revealed.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

tags: angels, growth, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, joy, life-purpose, love, peace, soul, truth, wisdom

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#8

“And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

tags: death, grief, growth, loss

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#9

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: change, changing, growing-up, growth, journey, leaving, life, life-story, living, london, musician, poetry, self-development, self-knowledge, solitude, songwriter, spiritual-growth, sweden, the-great-perhaps, travelling

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#10

“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”
― John Maxwell

tags: comfort-zone, growth, life

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#11

“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich, Sources

tags: friends, growth, lonliness, love, struggle, support

143 likes

#12

“There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

tags: growth, journey, joy, pain

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#13

“Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”
― Carl Jung

tags: fear, growth

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#14

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#15

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth

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#16

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

4162 likes

#17

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

1160 likes

#18

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: equality, fairness, feminism, freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth

1211 likes

#19

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: paradoxes, science, truth

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#20

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

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#21

“People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.”
― Lynn Marie Sager, A River Worth Riding

tags: truth, wisdom

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#22

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: courage, mindfulness, pain, self-assessment, self-awareness, truth

898 likes

#23

“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

tags: community, healing, isolation, ptsd, shamanism, support, trauma

171 likes

#24

“Dissociation (being split-off from one’s deepest truth) mimics enlightenment – but it isn’t enlightenment. People who are dissociated live in great peace. But this is only because they have blocked their negative feelings. The enlightened person resolves his negatives feelings, and thus his peace is not false.

People who are dissociated do not suffer. But this is only because they have abandoned their healing process and numbed their pain. Enlightenment grows from the fertilized soil of suffering.

People who are dissociated call themselves enlightened. But this is only because they have they have no conception of what enlightenment is. Enlightenment is the polar opposite of dissociation.

People who are dissociated feel they have mastered forgiveness. But this is only because they completely deny the harm done to them – and the damage remaining. The enlightened forgive spontaneously and without effort because they have fully embraced their damaged parts and grieved every honest ounce of their misery.”
― Daniel Mackler

tags: childhood-trauma

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#25

“Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and set aside their own needs in order to have a relationship with people they would otherwise not associate with. Parents, like anyone else, need to earn respect and honor, and honoring parents who are negative and abusive is not only impossible but extremely self-abusive. Perhaps, as with anything else, honoring our parents starts with honoring ourselves. For many adult children, honoring themselves means not having anything to do with one or both of their parents.”
― Beverly Engel, Divorcing a Parent

tags: abuse, child, parent

153 likes

#26

“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.”
― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

tags: problem-solving, psychology

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#27

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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#28

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

tags: day-by-day, problems, strength, worrying

239 likes

#29

“Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: life, maturity, outgrow, problems, solution, solve

96 likes

#30

“Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.”
― Rob Bell, What We Talk about When We Talk about God

tags: christianity, doubt, faith, inspiration, religion

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