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  • #1
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I didn’t punish myself because I wanted to.
    I punished myself because I thought it was normal to live for others.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #2
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Allow nature to teach you the act of being.
    Silence can heal your life.
    Listen beyond the sounds.
    Go beyond the clouds.
    Be like the sky for a moment.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #3
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Karma is what is happening to you.
    It’s the result of your thinking.
    Be aware, you are designing your own life.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #4
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “When your past makes you depressed, it’s time for a radical change.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #5
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “There is a link between living an unauthentic life and depression.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #6
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Freedom is to know that you are free.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #7
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Make no mistake about it – forgiveness and happiness are inseparable.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #8
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “If life tried to break me, it succeeded.
    It’s okay.
    Only a broken person can search for wholeness.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #9
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “She was the world to me.
    Of course, I knew nothing about my own world.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #10
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Inner-peace is the feeling between happiness and sadness.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #11
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “The biggest mistake I made was to believe that I could graduate from the school of life by skipping all the self-knowledge classes.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #12
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Only those who are compassionate toward themselves can be compassionate toward others.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #13
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Is there a more a heart-pleasing word than “contentment?” I doubt.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #14
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “My reflection on “life and death” deepened when I removed the “and” that separates them.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #15
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “When seeing life for what it is becomes more important than seeing it your way, you’ll finally understand what “courage” means.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #16
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I don’t write to tell stories, I write to find out what the stories want to tell me.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #17
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I know who you are.
    You are “Me,” disguised as “You.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #18
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “We can’t define “love” unless we become it.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #19
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “He was a mystery to me because he stood between “right” and “wrong.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #20
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Depression is a lack of “soul-expression.”
    The “soul” needs to experience its truths.
    The truth of a soul can be as simple as fully appreciating this moment, and as complex as writing a book.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #21
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “You don’t need to be on a diet.
    Feed yourself with what it’s needed to fulfill your mental and physical demands.
    There is no perfect or permanent diet.
    Self-knowledge is the key to health.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #22
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Compassion is a quality in those who are able to understand beyond right and wrong.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #23
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I have been confused.
    I have been hurt.
    I have been depressed.
    But never believed these states defined the “real” me.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #24
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “My search for happiness ended so a meaningful life could get started.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #25
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I’ll listen to your words as long as your actions don’t speak louder.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #26
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Art is the dance of the soul after one realizes that life is a song.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #27
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “I believe that the heart is the master of our lives, the mind our powerful servant, and the body the bridge between them.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You

  • #28
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “With love we were created, for love we may live, and to love we may return.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #29
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Here, in this very moment, there is a joyful, clear, and peaceful reality in which you can abide.”
    Valeria Teles

  • #30
    Valeria T. Koopman
    “Physical adoration has driven many of us away from our unique and true gifts. Some of us have become so obsessed with a fit body, or so ashamed for not having one, that unnecessary suffering alongside exercise has grown to be part of our lifestyle.”
    Valeria Teles, Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You



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