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"Practice radical acceptance; choose to love your home, and your body, and your work, even if you don't like it all the time. Choose to build your life from a place of gratitude and vision, rather than running from your own fears."

"You've been through some crap. You can look at challenges you currently face and compare them to the ones you thought you'd never get over, you can reassure yourself through your own experience. Life did not get easier, you got smarter."

"Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses, and allowing yourself to have the emotions you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences. It's letting yourself filter and process what you had to suppress at the time to keep going, maybe even to survive."

"Being that our only frame of reference at any given time is what happened in the past. We actually have no means to determine what would make us truly happy as opposed to just feeling saved from whatever we disliked about our past experiences"

"There is no where to arrive to, the only thing you are rushing towards is death. Accomplishing goals is not success, how much you expand in the process is."