The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton

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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

Want more confidence? Love yourself. Ready to finally set boundaries? Love yourself. Time to go after that dream? Love yourself. Ready to release your emotion? Love yourself. Your relationship with yourself, sets the tone for your entire life.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

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