Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ― Brené Brown

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. ― C.S. Lewis

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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. ― Criss Jami

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We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list. — Michelle Obama

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I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything. ― Pema Chodron

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

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