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“Think higher, feel deeper.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“When a man starts my program, he often says, “I am here because I lose control of myself sometimes. I need to get a better grip.” I always correct him: "Your problem is not that you lose control of yourself, it’s that you take control of your partner. In order to change, you don’t need to gain control over yourself, you need to let go of control of her.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Osećanje ljubavi nam služi da izaberemo one ljude koji su u skladu s našim željama i vrednostima, da se vežemo za njih i da ih uvedemo i zadržimo u našem intimnom socijalnom krugu, u našem intimnom delu sveta.”
― Zoran Milivojević, Formule ljubavi

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
― Joyce Meyer, I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
― Joyce Meyer

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat,”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Show up for people in pain and don’t look away.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Living BIG (boundaries, integrity, and generosity).”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“the only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead

“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Who would I be if I didn’t? Who would I be if I did?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.O”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Choose your attitude every day until eventually it chooses you right back.”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“Generosity is always cheaper than greed.”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“Real-World Example = Don’t schedule meetings that demand high creativity on Friday afternoon at 4:00 P.M. People are creatively empty then and their ideas will be too.”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“your willingness to discipline one part of your life creates freedom in another.”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“You’ve got to be flexible with your dream because it might not exist yet. ■”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“Attitude impacts everything. Start there. ■”
― Jon Acuff, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

“We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.”
― Alfred Adler

“The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.”
― Harriet Lerner, Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up

“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“There's an age-old maxim in the Black community: You've got to be twice as good to get half as far.”
― Michelle Obama