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41 " It's okay to feel all the stuff you're feeling. You're just becoming human again. "
― Glennon Doyle , Untamed
42 " First: I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn't. Every time I said to myself: I can't take this anymore – I was wrong. [...] I learned that I'd never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough. [...] Second: I can use pain to become. "
43 " Pain is not tragic.Pain is magic. Suffering is tragic. Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our becoming. "
44 " Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. "
45 " What if we let ourselves feel it all? What if we decided that it is strength– to let other people's pain pierce us? What if we stopped our lives and the world for things that are worth stopping for? "
46 " When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself. "
47 " This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. "
48 " I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself. "
49 " When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn. "
50 " Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. "
51 " Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough. "
52 " Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward. "
53 " You are here to decide if your life, relationships and world are true and beautiful enough for you. And if they are not and you dare to admit they are not, you must decide if you have the guts, the right - perhaps even the duty - to burn to the ground that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is. "
54 " Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself". "
55 " WE CAN DO HARD THINGS. "
56 " Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy. "
57 " A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free. "
58 " The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it's supposed to be. "
59 " I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming. "
60 " The only thing that was every wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me. "