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GEMINI: You’ve been burned before. You know what people are capable of doing, even people who claim to love you. 

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Sometimes, you need to cry about what’s happened to you in order to get over what’s happened to you. Sometimes, your misery is a stepping stone toward acceptance. 

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LEO: You assume the worst because you’re scared of getting too excited. You’re scared of dreaming too big. You’re scared of raising your expectations too high.

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It’s easy for me to tell other people everything is going to be okay and to keep thinking positive, but it’s hard for me to convince myself sometimes.

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You deserve to love yourself. You deserve to feel confident in your skin.

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I am slowly learning to abandon my pessimistic way of thinking. I am slowly learning to hold onto hope that things will get better.

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If life is going well for too long, then I assume that something bad is bound to happen. That the universe wouldn’t let me be happy for too many weeks without balancing things out.

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People may assume you aren’t creative or original – but that’s far from the case.

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We choose optimism when we choose to filter patterns of positivity, strength and love into our long-term memories. We choose pessimism when we choose to filter patterns of pain, grief and suffering into our long-term memories.

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We can demolish the hatred in our hearts and replace it with hope, we have to. We can’t let the bitterness win.