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You need to move past your insecurities and explore your full potential. It’s what you would encourage your friends to do, so why aren’t you giving yourself that same push?

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How do you know your dream is still alive? Because you haven’t stopped thinking about it.

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If art is the cure, then we have a duty as artists to keep creating and sharing it.

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As a grown-ass-woman, I know that you don’t always get what you want and dreams are a lot harder to come true than the movies would have you think.

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To choose ourselves is uncomfortable, scary, and isolating, but a step towards the life we deserve.

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You have a purpose bigger than those dreams you had when you were little. You have a heart and a mind that is stronger. That has seen the world for what it is.

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As I sit here today as the career woman I aspired to be so many years ago, I look back and laugh. I made a plan and I failed. Then I failed again. But I persevered.

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The scramble to be with you kept me on my toes. It kept life exciting. As we grew apart, that buzz turned into desperation. I just couldn’t keep doing it anymore.