We can’t just choose to be happy, but we can choose to be kind to ourselves when we’re sad. Pain passes more quickly when we don’t berate ourselves for feeling it.
The Quote Archive
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- attention
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- balance
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- Change
- Choices
- comfort
- comparison
- Compassion
- Confidence
- conflict
- control
- Courage
- Criticism
- death
- decisions
- desires
- Determination
- disappointment
- Dreams
- enjoyment
- envy
- expectations
- Failure
- fairness
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- feelings
- Forgiveness
- freedom
- friendship
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- giving
- goals
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- Greatness
- growth
- guilt
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- impermanence
- Jealousy
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- loneliness
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- minimalism
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- Pain
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- Peace
- perception
- Perfection
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- Possibilities
- procrastination
- purpose
- Regret
- rejection
- relaxation
- resentment
- Responsibility
- Righteousness
- risks
- sadness
- self-love
- sensitivity
- shame
- silence
- simplicity
- Sorrow
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- Success
- support
- surrender
- thoughts
- Time
- Trust
- truth
- Uncertainty
- understanding
- vulnerability
- Weakness
- wisdom
- Worry
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