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Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back

by Ingrid Clayton

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Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts, #2)

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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

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My Spiritual Journey: Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks by Dalai Lama XIV

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Real compassion is not just an emotional response; it is a firm, thought-out commitment. Therefore, an authentic attitude of compassion does not change, even faced with another person’s negative behavior.

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“There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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“We tiptoe through life hoping to safely make it to death. —Unknown”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

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“Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer.”
― Stephen Porges

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“Over the years I've worked out a philosophy of failure which I find extraordinarily liberating. If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks, and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to risk failure. Although I have had 30 books published, there are at least six unpublished books which have failed, but which have been necessary for the book that then gets published. The same thing is true in all human relationships. Unless I'm willing to open myself up to risk and to being hurt, then I'm closing myself off to love and friendship.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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