To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.― bell hooks,

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Self-care is how you take your power back. — Lalah Delia

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Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. ― Janice Trachtman

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All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect. — Peace Pilgrim

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ― C.S. Lewis

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ― Vladimir Nabokov

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All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. ― Bell Hooks

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. ― bell hooks

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