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"You were not born to be perfect. You were not born to be happy all of the time. But if you can commit each day to doing the work of being fully human and feeling even when you are afraid, you can transcend in a way that is truly beautiful."

"The wildest thing about life is how unassumingly it keeps moving. You lose the person closest to you, and the world affords you a few days of grieving, and then you're expected to just keep going. You go through something so life shifting, mind-altering, and deeply traumatic, then find that society only has a small abndwidth for tolerating your fear."

"Everything you lose becomes something you are profoundly grateful for. With time, you see that it was not the path. It was what was standing in your way."

Releasing the past is a process, and a practice - one that we have to learn. This is where we begin."

"The thing is that there are millions of scary things that can happen to us in our lives. That is true for everyone. When we are hung up on one scary thing over another, it's not because it's a more imminent or likely threat; it's because we are less convinced we would be able to respond to it."

"You have to remember that your feelings, while valid, are not often real. They are not always accurate reflections of reality. They are, however, always accurate reflections of our thoughts. Our thoughts change our feelings. Our thoughts do not change our instincts. What you naturally gravitate toward or away from is your instinct. It's not something you feel or interpret; it's something you naturally do."

"Though we live in an age where people tend to tell us that we should be entirely self-sufficient, and to want or need another person's presence, validation, or company is a sign of self-insufficiency, that is not an accurate potrayal of what it means to be human, and it severly overlooks the reality of human nature and connection."

"We grow up with the illusion that success is what's handed to people who are most deserving, talented, or privileged. when we arrive, however, we realize it is constructed by those who find an intersection of their interests, passions, skills, and a market gap. Sprinkle ona. little bit pf persistence, and the only way to fail is to give up."

"You do, however, need to understand that the people you spend the most time with will shape your future irrevocably, and so you must choose them wisely."

"The greatest act of self=love is to no longer accept a life you are unhappy with. It is to be able to state the problem plainly and in a straightforward manner."