We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

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As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.- J. Cole

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers

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Grief is a journey that leaves us changed forever. So don't run from it or hide from it. Embrace it and let it change you. – Unknown

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When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. - Ryan Murphy

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Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change. ― Dave Ramsey

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We grow through what we go through. — Tyrese Gibson

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Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

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