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If you got fat the instant you ate ice-cream, you probably wouldn’t eat it. If you got lung cancer the moment you smoked a cigarette, you probably wouldn’t smoke it.

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Sometimes, what seems to be a step back can be a huge step forward.

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People hate you. At first.

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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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I know that when I fail, I have simply become successful at trying something new.

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

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I have a voice. I am independent, beautiful, accomplished, and brave. I treat myself with the love and respect you stopped giving me. All the things I couldn’t dream of doing without you, I did, and I’m only getting started. Since you’ve been gone, I’ve lost so much, but I’ve gained even more.