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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.

1. If it frightens you, do it.
2. Don’t settle. Every time you settle, you get exactly what you settled for.
3. Put yourself first.
4. No matter what happens, you will handle it.
5. Whatever you do, do it 100%.
6. If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.
7. You are the only person on this planet responsible for your needs, wants, and happiness.
8. Ask for what you want.
9. If what you are doing isn’t working, try something different.
10. Be clear and direct.
11. Learn to say “no.”
12. Don’t make excuses.
13. If you are an adult, you are old enough to make your own rules.
14. Let people help you.
15. Be honest with yourself.
16. Do not let anyone treat you badly. No one. Ever.
17. Remove yourself from a bad situation instead of waiting for the situation to change.
18. Don’t tolerate the intolerable — ever.
19. Stop blaming. Victims never succeed.
20. Live with integrity. Decide what feels right to you, then do it.
21. Accept the consequences of your actions.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

You say you’ve lost the plot And there’s no way back. Every bridge behind you burnt.

But ours is a passage Frozen & heavy. Burdened with memories.

Ours, A bridge that shall never burn.

These helpless little boys concluded that if they could eliminate or hide all of their needs, then no one would abandon them. They also convinced themselves that if they didn’t have needs, it wouldn’t hurt so bad when the needs weren’t met. Not only did they learn early not to expect to get their needs met, but also that their very survival seemed to depend on appearing not to have needs.