Marie Forleo is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and self-proclaimed unshakable optimist. She is a New York Times bestselling author and was named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking—and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
In moving through apprehensive chills to mounting excitement and waves of moist tingling warmth, the body, with its innate capacity to heal, melts the iceberg created by deeply frozen trauma.
Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.