Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved. ― bell hooks

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Loss is the cost of loving ― Amanda Gorman

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. — David Ogden Stiers

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Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. – Lisa Weed

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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving ― Frank Ocean

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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. - Bryant H. McGill

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In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land. ― Mike Tyson

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