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You need to go easier on yourself when you make a mistake, when you say the wrong thing, when you mess up your plans.

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The moment you lose respect for someone is the moment you realize that sometimes respect is more important than love.

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I am slowly reducing the number of toxic people in my world. I am reminding myself not to settle out of loneliness.

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In my determination to be empathetic to and accepted by others, I realized that I had completely lost myself.

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Complacency: Anything luke-warm, half-assed, or even nice but not amazing. With one life to live, these things can be thrown away to make room for something better.

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But what about us? Where are our expectations?

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Your core needs do not change in correlation with who you are interacting with.

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Real self-respect is knowing what’s worth standing up for, but it’s also knowing that being confrontational rarely gets you what you want.

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Putting myself first is not selfish. Looking in the mirror and recognizing my beauty is not shallow. Cutting people out of my world who don’t deserve a second of my time is not bitchy.

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You own your faults. You aren’t afraid to share your weaknesses or admit that you have them because you know you are so much more than what you lack.