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    Aletheia Luna
    “Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body. Love your vulnerability. And if all else fails, breathe deeply.”
    ― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
    tags: assertiveness, boundaries, empath, empaths, highly-sensitive-people, intuition, let-go, sensitivity, vulnerability
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    Malcolm X
    “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: assertiveness, malcolm-x, willpower
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    Ana Claudia Antunes
    “Raise your vibration,
    Not your tone of voice..
    You gain inspiration,
    For Peace is a choice.”
    ― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
    tags: argument, assertiveness, attack, attitude, awareness, battle, choice, confidence, conflict-management-training, conflicts, deal, dealing-with-anger, dealing-with-heartbreak, dealing-with-problems, decision, defense, discipline, discussion, higher-consciousness, inspiration, inspirational-attitude, inspiring-words, kindness, motivation, no-defen, peace, peacemaker, peacemaking, problem-solving, raise-your-awareness, resolution, respect, self-control, self-improvement, self-improvement-book, wisdom
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    “To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough.”
    ― Edith Eva Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
    tags: assertiveness, decide, trust
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    Amber L. Johnson
    “But life isn't really about just geting by. Right when you've lulled yourself into a false sense of security, it likes to throw in a plot twist. Keep you on your toes.”
    ― Amber L. Johnson, Puddle Jumping
    tags: life, life-and-living, life-quotes
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    Molly Weis
    “When something goes wrong in your life just yell 'PLOT TWIST', and move on”
    ― Molly Weis
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    Mary Engelbreit
    “Bloom Where You're Planted”
    ― Mary Engelbreit
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: empathy, wisdom
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    Trevor Noah
    “Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
    ― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    tags: culture-identity, empathy, language
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    “To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.”
    ― Lin-Manuel Miranda
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    Eduardo Galeano
    “The Church says: the body is a sin.
    Science says: the body is a machine.
    Advertising says: The body is a business.
    The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
    ― Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words
    tags: body
    320 likes

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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    24000 likes

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    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational
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    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, live-in-the-moment
    770 likes

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    John C. Maxwell
    “We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves. —RUDOLF DREIKURS”
    ― John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
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    “A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.”
    ― Rudolf Dreikurs, Encouraging Children to Learn
    tags: encouragement
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    Jonathan Kozol
    “There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”
    ― Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation
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    Jonathan Kozol
    “A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives...”
    ― Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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    Jonathan Kozol
    “I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.”
    ― Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation
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    Jonathan Kozol
    “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
    ― Jonathan Kozol
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    Haim G. Ginott
    “When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
    When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
    When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
    When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.”
    ― Haim G. Ginott
    tags: discipline, parenting, violence
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    Haim G. Ginott
    “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
    ― Haim Ginott
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    Haim G. Ginott
    “Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”
    ― Haim G. Ginott
    tags: discipline, parenting
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
    1151 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics
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    Michael Cunningham
    “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
    tags: gender
    1490 likes

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    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “Through others we become ourselves.”
    ― Lev S. Vygotsky
    tags: development, educatin, identity, imitation, psychology, self-awareness
    400 likes

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    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.”
    ― Lev S. Vygotsky, Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
    tags: learning, teaching
    27 likes



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