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I want to be the way I feel, not the way I have to be. I am scared people won’t accept the “me” I hide. I am scared someone very dear to my heart won’t understand me. I am scared of the hate I bestow on myself.

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Let yourself be scared, just for a moment. Let yourself feel that fear running through your body, the promise of possibility. Because where you feel fear is where you grow.

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Betting on yourself. If you aren’t going to believe in yourself, who will?

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Everyone remembers one traumatic time that they took a chance and it didn’t work out, so now taking chances is scary. But why don’t we spend more time focusing on the times that our chances panned out for the best?

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1. He’s not the one I know that you think he is, but he’s not. And I know that you think the world revolves around him and that forever doesn’t sound like that long, but it really is.