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FindCenterYou cannot trade the courage needed to live every moment for immunity from life’s sorrows. Many things are clearly up to us. And many others are not. I can see no evidence that the universe works on a simple meritocratic system of cause and effect. Bad things happen to good people—all the time.

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Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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FindCenterBut above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

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Albert Camus
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FindCenterWe need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

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Thomas Moore
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FindCenterMy hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts.

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Mahatma Gandhi
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FindCenterInsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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FindCenterRecognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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FindCenterEven to me the issue of ‘stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest’ sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

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Brené Brown
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FindCenterA perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience.

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Fethullah Gülen
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FindCenterWe can walk the path of freedom when we let go of our fears and dare to be who we really are.

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Zainab Salbi
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FindCenterIt must be exhausting to feel as if your worth comes from winnowing yourself down to other people’s opinions of who you should be.

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Alok Vaid-Menon
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