This afternoon I went to Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville with my Aunt Terri, my cousin Dustin, and Dustin’s fiancé, Christy. (They’re all from Tulsa.) I assume the trip was something they planned before today, but I just found out about it when I woke up this morning, or as some people call it, afternoon. Since I didn’t have any plans, it was a lovely surprise.
On the drive up, I played my two current-favorite songs on repeat, and I looked at the mountains and the trees (and sometimes the road), and I thought, God, life is great.
After meeting Terri, Dustin, and Christy at Christy’s parents house, the four of us proceeded to the museum, and we decided it was more important to sit down and have coffee before checking out the exhibits. Well, everyone got a small coffee—like, honestly, they looked like shot glasses. But I got a sixteen-ounce coffee, the largest on the menu, because I have a problem with moderation. (I don’t like it.) So when we got ready to look around, I just picked up my drink and took it with me.
The first big exhibit we saw was—and I’m not making this up—a ton of hard candy (all green) on the floor in a rectangle with a light shining on it. (Later, when we saw a large canvas that was simply painted all gray except maybe a couple small dots, Christy said, “We’re in the wrong business.”) Despite the fact that it was just bunch of candy on the ground, the exhibit was really beautiful in its own way, and the deal is that you’re allowed to take a piece of it, so the art is constantly changing. Pieces of candy go out, and then more pieces come back in.
About fifteen minutes into the exhibits (after the all-gray canvas that someone probably got paid a lot of money for), a member of the museum staff came over and very nicely said, “Sir, drinks aren’t allowed in this area, but there’s a trashcan in the restroom just around that corner.” But what I heard sounded something more like, “If you don’t put that down right now, I’m calling your parents and sending you to the principal’s office.”
Maybe I should get my ears checked.
So I threw the cup away, but not before I finished drinking every last drop of the coffee because I wanted to have the last word and feel like a rebel.
Well, I really, really try not to obsess about stupid shit like this, but I’m rarely successful at it. Like, I remember being at a water park once as an adult, and some lifeguard (who probably had acne and drove a scooter to work) blew his whistle and pointed his finger like one of those angry cops in the middle of a traffic jam, telling me I was in the wrong part of the water. So I just swam away, sort of like I threw the coffee cup in the trash, and even though part of my brain understood that it’s not personal and he’s just doing his job and he doesn’t hate me, I still felt like I’d gotten my name on the blackboard.
The good news is, the incident with the cup today didn’t bother me as much as similar incidents in the past. Like once I got a parking ticket during a trip to Knoxville, and it totally ruined the dinner I was having with my friends. It was all I could think about. It’s like the people pleaser in me just wanted to jump up and invite the meter maid to join us for pizza, in hopes that I could convince her what a nice guy I am, that I’m not a bad person for parking in the wrong spot. It was a mistake. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. But today wasn’t that bad.
I’ve talked to my therapist about these sorts of situations before, and a couple of things always come up. First, I don’t like authority, and therefore I don’t like being told what to do. Second, I don’t like authority, and therefore I don’t like being told what to do.
Any questions?
I always assumed my problem with authority came from the fact that Dad was arrested and sent to prison, that I actually sat in the courtroom and watched twelve jurors, one by one, say, “Guilty.” Like, I’ve got plenty of emotional reasons to not like authority and to be afraid of getting in trouble. But my therapist says there’s more. (Heads up, there’s always more.) She says that because Mom was sick when I was growing up and Dad was in prison, I pretty much raised myself (and did a damn fine job, thank you). So since I’ve spent so much time being my own authority, outside authority and I don’t mix well.
How a person can hate authority and being told what to do and still be a rule follower, someone who’s afraid of getting in trouble, I’m still figuring out. (Job security for my therapist.) Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.”
Sometime last year, I got pulled over for using my phone while driving, and I lied and told the police officer I was looking for directions, but the truth is that I was actually texting. (This is my finding out if confession really is good for the soul. I’ll get back to you on the results.) Well, I didn’t get a ticket for using the phone, but I did get a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. (Have I mentioned I don’t like being told what to do?) When I told my therapist that I felt bad about lying to the police officer, she just said, “Fuck tha police.”
Apparently “Fuck tha police” is a rap song my therapist likes. (I didn’t know that she was such a thug, but then again, she also likes the roller derby.) Anyway, ever since then, Fuck tha Police has become the phrase we use to describe that part of my personality that has authority issues. And it’s not like she was encouraging me to break the law or do something stupid, but she said that particular part of my personality is always going to be there, and it has to be satisfied in some way, which I guess is why the lie didn’t bother her.
A lot of times after therapy, I go to lunch with my friend Ray. We call it “therapy after therapy.” Ray is honestly one of my favorite people, and I think it’s partly because he’s a priest but sometimes talks like a sailor, so I never feel like I need to clean up my act or put on a show in order to be around him. When we talked about Fuck tha Police, Ray told me that sometimes you just have to not give a shit—pig out on junk food and feel gross for a weekend—break the rules you’ve imposed on yourself—drive your car faster than the speed limit. So that day I drove home at a hundred miles an hour, maybe not the whole time, but for a while. And nothing bad happened. And Ray was right. It felt amazing.
Before we left the museum today, my aunt asked one of the ladies who worked there (whose hair looked like a bird nest, we all agreed) if she could take our picture. She said she couldn’t—they weren’t allowed. Then she added that she wished she could, which just made me mad and at the same time happy that I wasn’t the one talking to her. (As it turns out, when you have a problem with authority, you don’t like being told no. I’m working on it—I’m in therapy!)
Only somewhat dejected by not getting our picture taken, we went outside, and Christy asked another employee (whose hair did not look like a bird nest) if he could take our photo. And he didn’t even hesitate—he said sure, he’d be glad to.
YAH! A rule breaker! Fuck tha Police!
By the time I got home this evening, I noticed a definite change in mood from earlier in the day. I no longer felt like life was great. I mean, I thought it was okay. (You know, I’ve had better.) And I don’t think I can completely blame the incident with the coffee cup or being a little irritated about the lady who wouldn’t take our picture. But I think they played a part, just like I think the fact that I was tired and hungry played a part too.
I have this fantasy that one day I’ll go to therapy or read one more self-help book and wake up the next day transformed. Like I’ll never be in a bad mood again, and I won’t feel like a five-year-old when a total stranger says, “No drinks allowed.” But I get that it probably won’t happen that way. No, my experience of life is more like that exhibit of hard candy. Some days, it feels like a bunch of pieces of me are missing, and when the light hits, all I can see are the shadows. But then other days, it feels like all the missing pieces have been replenished, and when the light hits, the shadows scatter. As I see it in this moment, all of it is art, constantly changing. I, too, contain multitudes.
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We are all connected in a great mystery and made of the same strong stuff.
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"That love inside that shows up as joy or enthusiasm is your authentic self."
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Your story isn’t about your physical challenges.
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Patting yourself on the back is better than beating yourself over the head.
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Give yourself an abundance of grace.
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Pressure, it seems, is necessary to positive internal change. After all, lumps of coal don't shine on their own.
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Some things simply take time and often more than one trip to the hardware store.
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Love is all around us.
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You can be weird here. You can be yourself.
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If you want to become who you were meant to be, it's absolutely necessary to shed your old skin. Sure it might be sad to say goodbye--to your old phone, to your old beliefs, anything that helped get you this far--but you've got to let go in order to make room for something new.
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"No one's story should end on the ground."
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What are you really running away from?
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"Miracles happen."
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"Sickness and health come and go, just like everything else. It's just the way life is."
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In this moment, we are all okay.
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Even a twisted tree grows tall and strong.
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Healing is never a straight line.
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"It's really good news to find out that the world isn't as scary as you thought it was."
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Anything and everything is possible.
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Normal people don’t walk on water.
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Abundance comes in many forms.
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You can’t change what happened, but you can change the story you tell yourself about it.
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Your life is a mystery. But you can relax. It’s not your job to solve it.
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Boundaries are about starting small, enjoying initial successes, and practicing until you get your relationships like you want them.
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"We were made to love without conditions. That's the packaging we were sent with."
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You really do belong here.
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Along the way you’ll find yourself, and that’s the main thing, the only thing there really is to find.
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You absolutely have to be vulnerable and state what you want.
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Perhaps this is what bravery really is--simply having run out of better options, being so totally frustrated by the outside world that all you can do is go within.
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If you think only girls cry or that crying is inappropriate for some reason, fuck you. Some things are too damn heavy to hold on to forever.
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We can hang on and put everything safely in its place, and then at some point, we’re forced to let go.
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"It's never a minor thing to take better care of yourself."
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Our world is magical, a mysterious place where everything somehow works together, where nothing and no one is without influence, where all things great and small make a difference.
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You've really got to believe in yourself and what you're doing. Again, it comes down to integrity and making something solid of yourself, something that's so well-built on the inside that it can handle any storm.
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A mantra: Not an asshole, not a doormat.
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We may never be done, but that doesn't mean we'll never be complete. And surely we are complete right here, right now, and surely there is space enough for the full moon, for you and for me, and all our possibilities.
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You’re exactly where you need to be.
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Both sunshine and rain are required for growth.
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The clearer you see what's going on inside of you, the clearer you see what's going on outside of you. It's that simple.
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We're allowed to relabel and remake ourselves.
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Our shoulders weren’t meant to carry the weight of the world.
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If you're not living a fully authentic life, a part of you will never be satisfied.
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Rest gives us time to dream. One day, for certain, you’ll wake up. And you’ll be grateful for the time you rested, and you’ll be just as grateful that you’re different, far from the person who fell asleep.
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Growth and getting far in life have nothing to do with where you’re physically standing.
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"Obviously, God's capable of a lot. Just look around."
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All the while, we imagine things should be different than they are, but life persists the way it is.
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Sometimes life can really kick you in the balls and make you drop to your knees.
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"Things that shine do better when they're scattered about."
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We are surrounded by the light.
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"You can't change your age, but you can change what your age means to you."
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"Authenticity is worth all the hard work. Being real is its own reward."
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Just as there’s day and night literally, there’s also day and night emotionally. Like the sun, one minute we’re up, the next minute we’re down. Our perspectives change constantly. There’s nothing wrong with this. The constellations get turned around once a day, so why can’t you and I? Under heaven, there’s room enough for everything–the sun, the moon and stars, and all our emotions. Yes, the universe–our home–is large enough to hold every bit of us.
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It's enough to sit in, and sometimes drag ass through, the mystery.
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Our burdens are lighter when we share them.
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Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
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Storms don’t define us, they refine us.
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"Sure, people change, but love doesn't."
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Some days, most days, are a mixed bag. We cry, we laugh, we quit, we start again. That's life. In the process, we find out we're stronger than we thought we were, and perhaps this is healing.
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If life can create a problem, it can also provide an answer.
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We always have more support than we realize.
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As the ocean of life changes, we must too.
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Since one life touches another, we can never really say how far our influence goes. Truly, our story goes on and on in both directions. Truly, we are infinite.
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"Why should anyone be embarrassed about the truth?"
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Life is better when we're not in control. When we mentally leave room for anything to happen, anything can.
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There is a force, a momentum that dances with all of us, sometimes lifting us up in the air, sometimes bringing us back down in a great mystery of starts and stops.
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No one dances completely alone.
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For me, it's important to hang on to this idea that no matter how bad they are, your circumstances can turn around, to believe that if an elephant can show up in your life, it can also disappear, to believe that just as the universe full of big problems, it is also full of big answers.
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It’s okay to ask for help.
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I believe that God is moving small universes to communicate with me and with all of us, answering prayers and sending signs in unplanned moments, the touch of a friend's hand, and the very air we breathe.
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Take your challenges and turn them into the source of your strengths.
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Give yourself a break.
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If another's perspective, another's story about you is kinder than the one you're telling yourself, surely that's a story worth listening to.
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No one is immune from life’s challenges.
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Even if you can't be anything you want to be, you can absolutely be who you were meant to be. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.
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"The truth is right in front of you."
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A storm can leave your life just as quickly as it enters it.
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Transformation doesn’t have a drive thru window. It takes time to be born again.
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Sure, we forget it plenty of times, but on the inside we’re all shining. This is what gives me hope, knowing that we are all radiant.
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There’s no such thing as a small action. There’s no such thing as small progress.
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"Kindness is never a small thing."
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Bodies are so mysterious, much more complicated than car doors. They take more patience to understand and work with. They require more than a couple hours to repair.
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Who’s to say that one experience is better than another?
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There’s a lot of magic around you.
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Healing is like the internet at my parents’ house—it takes time.
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Sometimes you have to go back before you can go forward.
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We follow the mystery, never knowing what’s next.
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Sometimes we move with grace and sometimes we move with struggle. But at some point, standing still is no longer good enough.
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if you're content with yourself and you're always with yourself, then what's the problem?
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All things are moving as they should.
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All emotions are useful.
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Our struggles unearth our strengths.
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One day a change will come.
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Nothing physical was ever meant to stay the same.
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Boundaries aren’t something you knock out of the park every time.
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The truth doesn’t suck.
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"There are a lot of benefits to being right here, right now."
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Life proceeds at its own pace.
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All things become ripe when they’re ready.
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Suddenly the sun breaks through the clouds. A dove appears--the storm is over.
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"Beating yourself up is a far cry from self-respect."
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Nothing is set in stone here.
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It’s enough just to be here.
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For all of the things life takes away, it gives so much more in return. Whether we realize it or not, there’s always grace available.
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You can't build a house, much less a life, from the outside-in. Rather, if you want something that's going to last, you have to start on the inside and work your way out, no matter how long it takes and how difficult it is.
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We’re all made of the same stuff.
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We can rewrite our stories if we want to.
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It’s hard to say where a kindness begins or ends.
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I don't think anyone came to this planet in order to get it right the first time. What would be the point?
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A friend’s laughter takes us backward and carries us forward simultaneously.
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"The heart sings for its own reasons."
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"Not knowing what's going to happen next is part of the adventure."
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Beautiful isn’t something that comes in a particular package. Beautiful is simply being yourself.
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The more honest you are about what's actually happening inside of you, the happier you are.
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Being scared isn’t always an invitation to run away. More often than not, it’s an invitation to grow a pair and run toward.
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More often than not, the truth is a monster. It gets in your face and makes you get honest. Sometimes the truth separates you from people you care about, if for no other reason than to bring you closer to yourself.
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Sometimes the best you can do is metaphorically sit you ego down, look it square in the eye, and say, “Would you shut the fuck up already?”
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There’s a power that comes when you meet life’s challenges head-on. Those are the times you breathe the deepest. Those are the times the waters come forth and your heart beats every bit as loud as the thunder claps. Those are the times you know more than ever—no matter what happens next—in this moment, you’re alive.
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When we expect great things, we see great things.
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You have everything you need.
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A break is no small thing to give yourself.
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Abundance is a lot like gravity--it's everywhere.
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For I am a universe–large–like you are, and there is room here for all that we contain. An ego, of course, is small, and it is disgusted and humiliated by the smallest of things. But a universe is bigger than that, much too big to judge itself or another, much too big to ever question how bright it is shining.
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Nothing was made to last forever.
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Things are only important because we think they are.
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Healing requires letting go of that thing you can’t let go of.
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You can’t stuff down the truth—it always comes up.
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You can’t pick and choose what you receive from life, and you can’t always accurately label something as bad.
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As taught in the story of the phoenix, a new life doesn't come without the old one first being burned away.
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Each season has something to offer.
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If you’re making yourself up to get someone else’s approval–stop it–because you can’t manipulate anyone into loving you. People either embrace you for who and what you are–or they don’t.
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We all need to feel alive.
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If anything is ever going to change for the better, the truth has to come first.
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If you want to find a problem, you will.
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Aren’t you perfect just the way you are?
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The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. And whereas it's just a single step, it's a really important one.
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Everything is all right and okay.
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Go easier on yourself.
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You know when someone crosses a line. You may not want to admit it, but you know.
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"When you’re authentic, your authenticity is enough. You don’t need to compare."
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In other words, there's always SOMETHING else to improve or work on. Therefore, striving for perfection is not only frustrating, it's also technically impossible.
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Freedom lies on the other side of everything you're afraid of.
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It takes forty years in the desert for seas to part.
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Getting comfortable in your own skin takes time.
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It's the holes or the spaces in our lives that give us room to breathe and room to rest in, room to contain both good and bad days, and--when the time is right--room for something else to come along.
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Life is never just so. Honestly, it’s a big damn mess most of the time.
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Your emotions are tired of being ignored.
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Any mundane thing–an elevator ride!–can be turned into something joyous.
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When the universe speaks—listen.
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There's a wisdom underneath everything that moves us and even the planets at its own infallible pace. We forget that we too are like the planets, part of a larger universe that is always proceeding one step at time, never in the wrong place, everything always right where it belongs.
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It's never a small thing to open your home or heart to another person.
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Rejecting yourself is what really hurts.
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Help is always on the way.
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No good story ever ends.
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Whereas I've always pictured patience as a sweet, smiling, long-haired lady in a white dress, I'm coming to see her as a frumpy, worn-out old broad with three chins. You know--sturdy--someone who's been through the ringer and lived to tell about it.
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There’s nothing you can do to change the seasons or hurry them along.
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The symbols that fascinate us are meant to transform us.
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You can rise above. You can walk on water.
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The deepest waters are the only ones capable of carrying you home.
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We think of hope as something pristine, but hope is haggard like we are.
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All your scattered pieces want to come back home.
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Whatever needs to happen, happens.
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None of us is ever really lost. At least we're never really alone. For always there is someone to help point your ship in the right direction, someone who sees you when you can't see yourself.
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One thing finishes, another starts. Things happen when they happen.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"No one comes into this life knowing how to dance, always moving with grace."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Stop buying your own bullshit.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Just because your face is nice to look at doesn’t mean you don’t have a heart that’s capable of being broken. These things happen to humans, and there isn’t a one of us who isn’t human.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"I believe we're all courageous, and I believe that no one is alone."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Confidence takes what you have and amplifies it. Confidence makes anyone sexy.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Solid help and solid hope are quite the same thing.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Every stress and trauma in your life is written somewhere in your body.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can’t play small forever.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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And God knows you don't make everyone else happy. But this is no reason to quit or be discouraged, since doing what you love and feel called to do is never--never--about gaining acceptance from others.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You've got to believe that things can turn around, that even difficult situations--perhaps only difficult situations--can turn you into something magnificent.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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So perhaps perfection has little to do with that which changes and everything to do with that which doesn't. For surely there is a still, small something inside each of us that never changes, something that is timeless and untouchable, something inherently valuable and lovable--something perfect.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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It’s never too late to be your own friend.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"We all have inner wisdom. We all have true north."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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It’s not where you are, it’s whom you are there with.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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All great heroes, at some point, surrender to the unknown.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Love stands at the front door and says, “You don’t have to change a thing about yourself to come inside.”
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Better that you're true to yourself and the whole world be disappointed than to change who you are and the whole world be satisfied.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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There’s nothing wrong with taking a damn nap.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Ultimately, we all have to get our validation from inside, not outside, ourselves.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Allowing someone else to put you down or discourage your dreams is, quite frankly, anything but self-care.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We don’t get to boss life around.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Life doesn’t need us to boss it around.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Perfection is ever-elusive.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Of all the broken things in your life, you’re not one of them–and you never have been.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Answers come built-in. There are no "just problems."
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Damn if good news doesn't travel the slowest.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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No emotion is ever truly buried.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Sometimes you have to give up wanting something before you can have it.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can be more discriminating.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Everything is progressing as it should.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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When you hide your hurt, you can’t help but pass it on. It ends up seeping, sometimes exploding out.
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