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#3

“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, battles, beginnings, blog, classes, freedom, friendships, future, hanging-on, happiness, joy, letting-go, life, life-coach, living-life-to-the-fullest, moving-on, past, pinterest, positive-outlook, problems, relationships, relationships-101, starting-over, staying-positive, staying-positive-university, stayingpositiveu-com, success, trials, website

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#5

“I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

tags: hurt, hurtful, life, life-lessons, outrun, pain, painful, run, running

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#7

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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#9

“I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#10

“One time is an anomaly. Two times is a coincidence. Three times is proof.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

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#11

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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#11

“The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

tags: belief, believe, existence, soul, treasure

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#12

“Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#13

“The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

tags: dreams, mind, unconscious

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#14

“Unfelt feelings don’t cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#15

“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

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#16

“True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

tags: cynical, cynics, fakers, fear, insecure, insecurity, insincere, insincerity, life, life-lessons, posers, sarcasm, snark, snarky

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#17

“Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

tags: betrayal, betrayed, bitter, bitterness, fear, innocence, life, life-lessons, love, pain, self-love, wisdom

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#18

“Our minds do this all the time. They talk us out of things we don’t want to know.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

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#19

“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

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#20

“The future was something taken for granted. It was always there, waiting to be lived.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

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#21

“It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#22

“And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#23

“Hatred is hurt masquerading-it is an energy used to fool someone into thinking they are frightening when in truth they are frightened.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#24

“Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.’ – Aldous Huxley”
― John Marrs, Welcome To Wherever You Are

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#25

“Carrying anger with you is like lighting your own house on fire to get rid of rats. The rats run to safety while you burn yourself down. Forgive. Let go. Heal.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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#26

“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#27

“Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.”
― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

tags: actions, actions-speak-louder-than-words, life-lessons, truth, words

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#28

“I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It’s buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we’re the only ones who can use it.”
― Lisa Jewell, The House We Grew Up In

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#29

“She’d once heard them described as the whispers—the moments that are trying to tell you something isn’t right here.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Whispers

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#30

“To new beginnings,’ I echo, clinking my glass against his. I smile but at the same time dark thoughts are swirling in my mind and I’m thinking not about beginnings but endings.”
― Sarah Alderson, Friends Like These

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#31

“Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That's what people don't realize. Moving on is not proactive. It's organic. Be kind to yourself.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Third Wife

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#32

“Same reason she didn't tell you how hard she found it, being the spare part in your great dynasty. She obviously didn't feel like she could talk to you.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Third Wife

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#33

“There’s about a hundred shades of green in a Minnesota summer, light like celery, deep like emeralds. You wouldn’t think one color could have so many different flavors.”
― Jess Lourey, Unspeakable Things

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#34

“She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of—it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.”
― Shari Lapena, Everyone Here Is Lying

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