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"For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression. The cost of silence is too high."
― Beverly Daniel Tatum
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"Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities."
― Iyanla Vanzant
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"The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight or freeze response."
– Tara Brach
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"You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer served."
– Nina Simone
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"Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt."
― Iyanla Vanzant
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"Self-compassion is a way of emotionally recharging our batteries. Rather than becoming drained by helping others, self-compassion allows us to fill up our internal reserves, so that we have more to give to those who need us."
– Kristen Neff
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you."
– Maya Angelou
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"When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life."
― Iyanla Vanzant
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"You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody."
― Maya Angelou
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"The key to happiness is understanding that suffering is caused by resisting pain."
– Kristen Neff