Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Sir Ian McKellen

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Affirmations are a powerful tool to deliberately install desired beliefs about yourself.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Our destiny is not written for us, it's written by us

The most important things in life are measured internally. You have an inner scoreboard. Playing to someone else's scoreboard is easy. But when you look up at the end after winning, you'll feel empty as you discover you won the wrong game. Play your own game.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

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