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Everyone sees how nervous you are.

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“It’s not a big deal. I forgot about it anyway.” The truth: I’ve replayed everything that happened a good 100 times already, each time thinking of what could have happened differently.

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I had very little to say to him. I had moved on. Seeing him again wasn’t about closure, I had already written my own ending.

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Learn how to deal with stress. That’s the path to freedom. Not the other way around.

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I worry that I’ll never love anyone as much as the first person I ever fell in love with.

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The main skill I got between my 20s and now is that I bounce back from bad things faster.

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Being miserable is a combination of how you live your life and how you process the inevitable things that happen. A lot of us don’t even realize all the ways we’re creating our own misery.

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Even the most confident women have a few carnal concerns.

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Hunger cares not where you are, or what you have eaten, especially if it was a four-course meal. You know that as soon as you “finish eating,” you’ll be more than ready for whatever comes next. Someone’s leftovers? You’ll take it! Dessert? Do you even have to ask?

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I’m going to enjoy the only time I have to make changes and experience life — I’m going to be present. I’m going to fight against my naturally tendency to dwell and worry and I’m going to be here now.