"When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love."
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"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
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"Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own."
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"Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life."
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"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
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"Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson."
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"When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day."
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"View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings."
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"Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are."
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"God is a frequency. Stay tuned."
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"Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live."
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"Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego."
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"What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true."
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"You change the past when you change the way you see it."
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"Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future."
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"It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free."
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"When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love."
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"The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives."
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"Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create."
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"Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs."
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