Don't waste your time living the life of someone else. ― Shree Shambav

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. ― bell hooks

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You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. - Bryant H. McGill

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. ― bell hooks

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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ― bell hooks

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. – Thornton Wilder

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ― Nelson Mandela

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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