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“We need to give children ways to help themselves feel good,” she tells me. “Parents can start with simple messages throughout the morning that children can repeat—messages such as: It’s so easy to get dressed. I love getting dressed. Breakfast is always a fun time. We’re all so glad to see each other. We love eating breakfast together. Breakfast makes my body feel good. “Parents can even go around the table and have each family member share one thing they love about themselves. Or they can put affirmations in a bowl and choose one for the whole family to focus on during the day. This can become a morning ritual for couples, families, roommates, and so on. Each person can even decide on one experience they’d like to have that day and create an affirmation for”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Create an Exceptional Life

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Pam Grout, E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles is Your Full-Time Gig

“Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

“No matter how your day goes, the sun always rises the next day. You get a fresh start.”
― John Herrick, 8 Reasons Your Life Matters