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"The only time you're going to really hold onto the past is when haven't learned from the past. When you have, you can apply those lessons to the present moment and create what you wanted to experience then."

"Reflect on what went wrong, learn from what when wrong, and figure out how you're either going to make up for it or change the outcome in the future. Then let it go."

"You might think it's about keeping a stiff upper lip, but it's not. It's about crying when life is sad, being angry in the face of injustice, and being determined to create a solution when a problem arises. That responsiveness, instead of reactiveness, defines mental strength."

"The feeling of peace is trying to remind you that everything will be okay because it always is. And always will be, no matter what."

"Remember this: The feeling of peace is the one telling you the truth."

"Consistently, throughout all of humankind, the answer is the same: you return to your baseline. This is because this kind of happiness is not real. It is only being completely at peace with whenever you are in any given day that you will find a genuine sense of wonder, presence, and joy."

"The reality is that inner peace is the true happiness, and everything else is just a false means of trying to convince yourself that you are "okay."

"What you get on the other side of healing is greater than that; you just haven't experienced it yet to know. What you get for going through something painful is you become more resilient, more self-sufficient, more empowered."

"You realize that nothing will save you, and so you must begin to work of saving yourself, which is the entire purpose of your life."

"Trauma is the experience of disconnecting from a fundamental feeling of safety. Unless you are able to reestablish that connection, a particularly destructive bias distorts your worldview: You become hypersensitive, which means that you will ascribe intent, overthink, overreact, become triggered by innocuous stimuli, personalize neutral situations, and remain in a mental 'combat mode'."

"Trauma is what happens when something scares you and you do not get over that fear. If you do not resolve of 'defeat', you get into, and remain in, a sustained state of fight-or-flight, which is essentially the human panic response for survival."