Shannon L. Alder quote: "Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion."

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return a...
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I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard bec...
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The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or an...
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Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. Howeve...
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Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk h...
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What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your oppo...
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And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my d...
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An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am inse...
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Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in ever...
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Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is know...
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Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be hum...
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Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.
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One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being you...
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I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’r...
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They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate yo...
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A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
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Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a f...
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You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no ...
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The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
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When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you ...
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Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another st...
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Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stori...
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Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?
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If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or ...
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There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simp...
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Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. ...
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Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.
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One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
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Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is noth...
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If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, ...
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Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion a...
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A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
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The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfil...
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You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite ...
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It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
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I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
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Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.
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Dear Child,

Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are i...
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The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get p...
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There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your acco...
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My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
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Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.
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I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I c...
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Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one ...
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The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.
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There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
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Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
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It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why e...
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The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you...
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Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies ...
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To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words the...
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When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you fore...
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The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or futu...
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Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "W...
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It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child underst...
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If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passi...
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Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in wa...
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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something y...
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Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
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People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person t...
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If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things ab...
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Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying go...
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A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them....
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Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by ...
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Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly t...
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Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
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A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionall...
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Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
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Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is ...
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The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like ...
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Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing mor...
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If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him ...
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Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded cipher...
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When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answer...
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True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back ...
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Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we s...
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There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path...
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Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy t...
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A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words c...
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Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they...
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When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, y...
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A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand...
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Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.
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Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes li...
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Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
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When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will hav...
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When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on h...
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Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where ...
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I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to ...
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Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point the...
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Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each p...
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You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of j...
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I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my...
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Realize that narcissists have an addiction disorder. They are strongly addicted to feeling significa...
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If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not ...
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You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done t...
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Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be...
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It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you ...
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Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have t...
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Empowered Women 101: Only an insecure woman with control issues will look outside her relationship a...
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Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, ...
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Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
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People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their ta...
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I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to ...
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Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
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People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version...
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Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it...
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Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun

1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be...
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Narcissistic Supply

You get discarded as supply for one of two reason: They find you too ...
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Narcissists will never tell you the truth. They live with the fear of abandonment and can't deal wit...
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The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.
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Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their fr...
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Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
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Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.
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Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can...
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A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto ho...
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Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
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The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will liv...
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It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear i...
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Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because G...
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Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you l...
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He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on h...
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A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and...
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If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than plan...
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It is not the monsters we should be afraid of; it is the people that don't recognize the same monste...
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You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found th...
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The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of yo...
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Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing ...
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You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be th...
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You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or signifi...
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When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of the...
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If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gi...
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I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupi...
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You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of other...
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It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisp...
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Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from l...
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Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through t...
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People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situ...
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Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others...
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You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by some...
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Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.
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The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.
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The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would t...
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Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of realit...
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When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it ...
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Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.
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The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask yo...
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Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?
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There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and ac...
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See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma o...
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Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a...
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True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand yo...
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Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they rema...
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Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, wi...
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God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and ...
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Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder o...
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Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their ...
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The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the dark...
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Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid...
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No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.
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The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
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Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the ...
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A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that firs...
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It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one per...
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The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
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Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured b...
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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
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When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to...
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Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the qu...
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Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they rea...
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You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in ...
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Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neith...
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People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them a...
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victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\

1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder...
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Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
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The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his c...
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A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
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Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience th...
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Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.
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Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you fin...
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Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not ...
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Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-e...
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Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows ...
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Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
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Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The ...
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The only person that should wear your ring is the one person that would never…

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Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
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It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys t...
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When I was a child, an angel came to say,
A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,...
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When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder t...
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One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many pe...
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Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
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You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.
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Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
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If he emotionally cheated on you remember this before you take him back. It was a choice to do it an...
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The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling the...
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A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to...
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Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading the...
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I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually,...
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Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion.

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