You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Laozi

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. — Nelson Mandela

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