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“We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.”

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can’t just wait to see what kind of day you’ll have. You have to decide what kind of day you’ll have.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

When you find yourself drowning in self-hate, you have to remind yourself that you weren’t born feeling this way. That at some point in your journey, some person or experience sent you the message that there was something wrong with who you are, and you internalized those messages and took them on as your truth. But that hate isn’t yours to carry, and those judgments aren’t about you. And in the same way that you learned to think badly of yourself, you can learn to think new, self-loving and accepting thoughts. You can learn to challenge those beliefs, take away their power, and reclaim your own. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen over night. But it is possible. And it starts when you decide that there has to be more to life than this pain you feel. It starts when you decide that you deserve to discover it.

There are two ways to be happy: change the situation, or change your mindset towards it.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past…be proud of your scars and that you’re still standing.

When you feel hurt but do not hurt the other, you are truly victorious

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.

Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.