Today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, which is apparently the left one. For whatever reason, my body has hurt in a number of places, and I simply haven’t felt well. This means normal, simple things, like making breakfast and deciding whether to wear a black or grey v-neck shirt have been a challenge. You know how it is when your body is off–nothing tastes good, none of your clothes fit right, and combing your hair is so difficult it feels like it should be an olympic sport. Well, that’s how today was for me, and I don’t mind saying my attitude has sucked too. I seriously considered canceling all my plans and going back to bed until the first day of spring. But now it’s four in the morning, which means I decided to not only keep my plans, but also make more of them.
As my dad would say, I’m a glutton for punishment.
Other than my sour mood, the day itself has been delightful. (Too bad I couldn’t have enjoyed it more.) Mom had chemotherapy today, and I met her, my dad, and my two aunts for barbecue afterwards. Of course, eating out like this can be a challenge when you’re on a diet, but–whatever–I did my best, ordering a brisket sandwich with no bread (BORING!) and a sweet potato. The lady taking my order said, “So let me get this straight–you just want a plain sweet potato–no butter or sugar or butter or nothin’?”
“That’s correct,” I said.
Then my dad (ever the comedian) added, “He’s always been like this.”
So that felt supportive.
It’s hard enough to hang out with a bunch of Southern Baptists when you’re in the closet…
It’s funny how a little thing like eating differently than everyone else at the table can make you feel isolated. I remember when I stopped eating pork in high school, and all of a sudden I was that guy who wouldn’t eat pepperoni pizza. I have this distinct memory of being at a holiday party in Mississippi where I only knew a couple people. Everyone was chowing down and having a good time, but when I surveyed the food, everything was either sausage, ham, or bacon. I swear, it was like all five piggies had gone to market (and never returned home). Anyway, it’s hard enough to hang out with a bunch of Southern Baptists when you’re in the closet, but it’s even harder when they all think you’re a Jew.
In terms of how people have responded to my dietary prohibitions over the years, I seriously can’t tell you how much shit I’ve gotten, mostly from people who claim to be my friends. Not to be graphic, but I’ve received more ribbing, teasing, and harassment for things I won’t put in my mouth than for the things I will. Just eat it. It won’t hurt you. Oh, Marcus is weird–he doesn’t eat that. First it was pork, then dairy, breads, sugar, and alcohol whenever I’ve been on a diet. I honestly don’t know why people give a shit, but having watched others exercise self-restraint and walk away from a chocolate cake (a chocolate cake!) at the same time I went back for seconds, I assume it has something to do with personal guilt. But the point I’m making is that you never realize how communal and bond-forming food can be until you stop eating like the masses. Even sitting at a table with your own family and not eating bread with everyone can make you feel like the odd man out.
One of the things that sucks about having a bad mood is that you take it everywhere you go. Tonight I went to see some friends in a local production of Footloose, and every time someone asked me what I’ve been doing lately, I said, “Not much, just reading and writing,” as if I were apologizing and my life were something to be ashamed about. Maybe that’s how it feels because it doesn’t currently have a paycheck attached to it. But come on, Marcus. You’re writing a thousand words a day at four in the frickin’ morning. Not much, my ass! One friend, a full-time artist, said, “I’m jealous,” which did remind me that my position is enviable to certain people, and I’m planning on enjoying that reminder once I get to feeling better. For now it feels–eh.
After the musical I met my friend Bonnie for Latin dancing, which again, is something I’m planning to enjoy retroactively. Oh yeah, those people really were nice–those dances really were fun. Now all I can think about is how it felt like everyone else knew each other and I only knew Bonnie. Maybe if everyone there had a blog, I’d find out differently. Someone looking at me might have thought I didn’t have a care in the world. Maybe we all put on a good front.
Bonnie and I left before the dance ended to get something to eat at Village Inn. Thankfully, Bonnie’s also on a diet, different than mine, but similar enough so that it made saying no to pancakes and pie much easier. Nope, you heard correct! No one at this table wants anything tasty OR fun. Referencing all the tacos, beer, and doughnuts we inhaled on road trips this last summer, Bonnie said, “Who are we, and what has happened to us?”
I’m still wondering.
While we were not eating pancakes and pie, a couple sat down in a booth across the room. At least I assume they were a couple. Either way, the guy had a coat on, and on the back in big, orange letters it said, “LEAVE ME ALONE.” Naturally, all I could think about was going over to talk to him, asking him twenty questions. Bonnie suggested poking him with one finger. We seriously considered these options for at least five minutes, but ultimately respected the man’s wishes. Still, I can’t stop thinking about his jacket, since I guess we all feel that way at times. Like, Jack–Get back. More often than not, I think this is a defense mechanism, since it’s natural to want to be included, whether we’re on a dance floor or at a dining room table.
Honestly, it’s not difficult to eat chicken and vegetables every day. It’s mundane, but it’s not difficult. But it is difficult to feel alone and keep doing what you think is right, to willingly be different from the group, even if it’s just for a meal or two. And sure, it’s worse when your body feels bad. Still, even though it’s not easy, I think this is what growing up and authenticity require–the ability to go against the grain (the metaphorical grain, not just the bread kind), to make your own decisions regardless of what others do or say. But even when you’re feeling alone, I believe there will still be friends beside you, probably more than you realize. At the very least, you won’t be pretending to be someone you’re not in order to make somebody else happy, which means you’ll have yourself.
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"Kindness is never a small thing."
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Growth and getting far in life have nothing to do with where you’re physically standing.
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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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You have everything you need.
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"Miracles happen."
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Your emotions are tired of being ignored.
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Sometimes life can really kick you in the balls and make you drop to your knees.
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We think of hope as something pristine, but hope is haggard like we are.
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We can rewrite our stories if we want to.
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"Why should anyone be embarrassed about the truth?"
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Any mundane thing–an elevator ride!–can be turned into something joyous.
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One day a change will come.
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No emotion is ever truly buried.
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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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Nothing is set in stone here.
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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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"Authenticity is worth all the hard work. Being real is its own reward."
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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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"You can't change your age, but you can change what your age means to you."
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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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You can’t play small forever.
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"Beating yourself up is a far cry from self-respect."
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Life doesn’t need us to boss it around.
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You can be weird here. You can be yourself.
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"We were made to love without conditions. That's the packaging we were sent with."
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Stop buying your own bullshit.
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There’s nothing you can do to change the seasons or hurry them along.
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"No one comes into this life knowing how to dance, always moving with grace."
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Give yourself an abundance of grace.
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Damn if good news doesn't travel the slowest.
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Answers come built-in. There are no "just problems."
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All things are moving as they should.
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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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The more honest you are about what's actually happening inside of you, the happier you are.
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Go easier on yourself.
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"That love inside that shows up as joy or enthusiasm is your authentic self."
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It's enough to sit in, and sometimes drag ass through, the mystery.
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Anything and everything is possible.
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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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It’s hard to say where a kindness begins or ends.
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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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Nothing physical was ever meant to stay the same.
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It's never a small thing to open your home or heart to another person.
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Solid help and solid hope are quite the same thing.
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No one is immune from life’s challenges.
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All things become ripe when they’re ready.
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Aren’t you perfect just the way you are?
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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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Boundaries are about starting small, enjoying initial successes, and practicing until you get your relationships like you want them.
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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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You can rise above. You can walk on water.
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There’s a lot of magic around you.
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Getting comfortable in your own skin takes time.
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Freedom lies on the other side of everything you're afraid of.
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Sometimes you have to give up wanting something before you can have it.
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"It's never a minor thing to take better care of yourself."
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Things are only important because we think they are.
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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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Help is always on the way.
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No good story ever ends.
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A break is no small thing to give yourself.
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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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Rejecting yourself is what really hurts.
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Some things simply take time and often more than one trip to the hardware store.
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Life is never just so. Honestly, it’s a big damn mess most of the time.
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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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What are you really running away from?
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We’re all made of the same stuff.
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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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If you want to find a problem, you will.
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Healing is like the internet at my parents’ house—it takes time.
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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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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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Take your challenges and turn them into the source of your strengths.
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Healing requires letting go of that thing you can’t let go of.
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The symbols that fascinate us are meant to transform us.
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Transformation doesn’t have a drive thru window. It takes time to be born again.
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We are all connected in a great mystery and made of the same strong stuff.
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All your scattered pieces want to come back home.
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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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If life can create a problem, it can also provide an answer.
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In this moment, we are all okay.
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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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You absolutely have to be vulnerable and state what you want.
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A mantra: Not an asshole, not a doormat.
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Everything is progressing as it should.
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Perfection is ever-elusive.
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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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We always have more support than we realize.
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It’s never too late to be your own friend.
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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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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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"No one's story should end on the ground."
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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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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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Pressure, it seems, is necessary to positive internal change. After all, lumps of coal don't shine on their own.
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"The heart sings for its own reasons."
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We follow the mystery, never knowing what’s next.
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Life proceeds at its own pace.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t change what happened, but you can change the story you tell yourself about it.
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Our shoulders weren’t meant to carry the weight of the world.
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When the universe speaks—listen.
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Abundance comes in many forms.
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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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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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Whatever needs to happen, happens.
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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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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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As the ocean of life changes, we must too.
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It’s not where you are, it’s whom you are there with.
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"Not knowing what's going to happen next is part of the adventure."
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All great heroes, at some point, surrender to the unknown.
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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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"We all have inner wisdom. We all have true north."
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One thing finishes, another starts. Things happen when they happen.
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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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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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"There are a lot of benefits to being right here, right now."
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You can be more discriminating.
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Give yourself a break.
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It’s enough just to be here.
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"The truth is right in front of you."
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We're allowed to relabel and remake ourselves.
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You can’t stuff down the truth—it always comes up.
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The truth doesn’t suck.
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Patting yourself on the back is better than beating yourself over the head.
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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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Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
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Boundaries aren’t something you knock out of the park every time.
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"Things that shine do better when they're scattered about."
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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're not living a fully authentic life, a part of you will never be satisfied.
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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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We are surrounded by the light.
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Suddenly the sun breaks through the clouds. A dove appears--the storm is over.
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All emotions are useful.
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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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It’s okay to ask for help.
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Ultimately, we all have to get our validation from inside, not outside, ourselves.
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Your story isn’t about your physical challenges.
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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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Allowing someone else to put you down or discourage your dreams is, quite frankly, anything but self-care.
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Healing is never a straight line.
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Every stress and trauma in your life is written somewhere in your body.
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No one dances completely alone.
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"Obviously, God's capable of a lot. Just look around."
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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 nothing wrong with taking a damn nap.
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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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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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Normal people don’t walk on water.
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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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You know when someone crosses a line. You may not want to admit it, but you know.
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Both sunshine and rain are required for growth.
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"Sure, people change, but love doesn't."
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Nothing was made to last forever.
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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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Storms don’t define us, they refine us.
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Everything is all right and okay.
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We don’t get to boss life around.
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Even a twisted tree grows tall and strong.
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You really do belong here.
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You’re exactly where you need to be.
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The deepest waters are the only ones capable of carrying you home.
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"I believe we're all courageous, and I believe that no one is alone."
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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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"When you’re authentic, your authenticity is enough. You don’t need to compare."
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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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Sometimes you have to go back before you can go forward.
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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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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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Confidence takes what you have and amplifies it. Confidence makes anyone sexy.
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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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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Who’s to say that one experience is better than another?
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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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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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Beautiful isn’t something that comes in a particular package. Beautiful is simply being yourself.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Love is all around us.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We all need to feel alive.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Abundance is a lot like gravity--it's everywhere.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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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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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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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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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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A storm can leave your life just as quickly as it enters it.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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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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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Each season has something to offer.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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It takes forty years in the desert for seas to part.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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When we expect great things, we see great things.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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A friend’s laughter takes us backward and carries us forward simultaneously.
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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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Our burdens are lighter when we share them.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Our struggles unearth our strengths.
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