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This is the aging process worth celebrating. Chronological age marks how long you’ve lived, but emotional age reflects what you’ve done with the time.
— Judith Sills
Wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.
—Kathy Freston
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
—Tony Judt
How we grow—emotionally, spiritually, relationally, financially—is to take a risk
— Dr. Robin Smith
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing—light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light
— Jodi Picoult
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.
— Victoria Moran
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.
— Paul Auster
The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you—you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.
— Cheryl Richardson
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