Quotes to ponder

"Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, you are not the rain." – Matt Haig

 

"Honesty without kindness is brutality. Kindness without honesty is manipulation" - Unknown

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"Beneath every behavior, there is a feeling. And beneath every feeling, there is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause. Not the symptom." – Ashleigh Warner, Psychologist

 

"Your life only gets better when you do. Work on yourself and the rest will follow." - Unknown

 

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it." – Maya Angelou

 

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do, I think that is how you grow." – Marissa Mayer

 

"Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore" – Zig Ziglar

 

"Maybe the journey isn’t so much about BECOMING anything. Maybe it’s about UN-BECOMING everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." – Paulo Coelho

 

"Weaponing honesty is using it as an excuse to be cruel or hurtful and then blaming them for not handling your honesty or the truth" – Unknown

 

"People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is 'you’re safe with me' – that’s intimacy" – Taylor Jenkins Reid

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“What you’re doing is weird”

“Are you sure it’s weird? Or is it just not within the range of what you would’ve felt comfortable doing because of your own level of confidence?” - Unknown