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Right now, you have the ability to change—not what has happened to you, but where you go from here.

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If you’re serious about the changes you want to make, willpower won’t be enough. Quite the opposite. Willpower is what’s holding you back.

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You know the real you and what you deserve.

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If you get too closed to new ways of living as a possibility, then your life will shrink and you will become more and more brittle.

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Maybe we’re meant to stay a little bit broken forever.

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“Give it a month; things will change. Give it a year, you will.”

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After all, our hearts are like any other room; collecting dust and clutter the longer we keep pushing unwanted items under the rug.

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How you were was not working anymore, and so you cannot come back as you were.

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If you don’t like that direction, turn. Don’t turn back. Don’t turn around. Just turn. Right. Left. Diagonal. Cut across the grass. Take a back road.

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You don’t, at first. You fight it because you’re human, because you’re used to the world and the way it is, because you’re terrified.