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#1

“Your thoughts are powerful and hold the power of life and death. Your thoughts trigger your emotions. Learn to tame your thoughts...do not let your thoughts tame you. Learn to tame your emotions...do not let your emotions tame you”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

tags: discipline, emotional-abuse, emotions, life-coaching-by-kemi-sogunle, life-goals, life-principles, mindset, mindset-mastery, thoughts

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#2

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect

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#3

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
― Brene Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

tags: shame

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#4

“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

tags: blame, judgment, perfectionism, shame

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#5

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

tags: bipolar, courage, depression, drinking, illness, manic-depression, medication, mental, mental-health, mental-illness, shame, sigma

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#6

“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

tags: abuse, child-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, love, manipulation, repressed-feelings, shame, trust

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#7

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: being-someone-else, being-someone-else-you-are-not, hating-yourself, hiding, humanity, inspirational, lying, self-acceptance, self-hatred, shame, trying-to-be-like-someone-else

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#8

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
― Brené Brown

tags: shame

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#9

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

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#10

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

tags: motive

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#11

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

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#12

“You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

tags: biploar, illness, manic-depression, mental, mental-health, psycholofy, sex

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#13

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

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#14

“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

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#15

“You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful

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#16

“Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

tags: love, wanting

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#17

“I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.”
― Jenna Jameson, How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

tags: confidence, inspirational, judged, sense-of-self, survivor

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#18

“Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.”
― Jenna Jameson, How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

tags: age, education, experiences, genetics, inspirational, parents

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#19

“When I feel betrayed, I cut that person out of my life to protect myself from getting hurt anymore. So I stopped seeing Jennifer after that, and I lost one of the only people in my life who truly seemed to have loved me. A”
― Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

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#20

“The strange thing about bullies is that if you take their abuse, it never ends. But once you get the balls to stand up to them, they respect you and move on to a weaker target. I never heard a bitchy word from her again. It was that”
― Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

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#21

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: better

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#22

“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, poetry, truth

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#23

“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#24

“Potential has a shelf life.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

tags: life, potential

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#25

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#26

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: feminism, humor

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#27

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#28

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
― Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems

tags: love

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#29

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love

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#30

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: constitution, dystopia, enemy, government

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