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Love Family Trust Daughter Inspired Better Man

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life; LIVE yours!”

Life Reality Inspiring Opinion Blind Live Wrong Bet

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“My eyes opened... I had been blessed with a new day; another chance to get it right. I could take a small step in a healthier direction. I could allow the grace I have been shown to fuel my courage to let go of the past. I could be grateful to see that God thinks I deserve another day... And I will make this day count!”

Inspiration Courage Grace Letting Go New Day Let Go

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Emotional self-defense is an act of WISDOM. Building personal boundaries is an act of STRENGTH. Anyone who tells you differently is often the reason we need both.”

Wisdom Relationships Strength Boundaries

Author:Steve Maraboli

“She wasn’t sure if it was strength or numbness… But either way… She was going to get up and get through this.”

Inspiration Motivation Strength Numbness

Author:Steve Maraboli

“With youth, there is power. With wisdom, there is strength.”

Wisdom Power Strength Youth

Author:Steve Maraboli

“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”

Friends Challenge Realizations Outgrow

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you; they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.”

Life Friends Protect Wings Angels Walk Stormy

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I wish my friends would be a tad more selective before they jump in with both feet. Almost instantly… “they’re my world!!” Ummm, this is like your 8th world… You making a solar system?”

Humor Relationships Friends

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be.”

Love Inspiration Happiness Support Friends

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen!”

Friends Drama New Year Let Go

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.”

Life Hope Family Friends Rainbow Storms

Author:Steve Maraboli

“I gave you more than anyone gave you... and I had less to give. I'll never forget the pain I felt when you betrayed me anyway. You lost that day... even though I was the one heartbroken... you lost. Life will reveal to you what you had in me... what you threw away. And you'll search for me in everyone you meet and I won't be found.”

Relationships Heartbreak Abuse Heartbroken

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.”

Life Happiness Simple Things

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Life is simple; it's just not easy.”

Life Easy Simple

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.”

Truth Simple Victim Blame Delusion Cause Fault Effect

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.”

Life Happiness Beauty Perception Imperfect Limitations

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Why do we place so much weight on being desired? Desire requires the least of our primal abilities. Think of the ebb and flow of all the things we desire. I want to be respected, appreciated, understood, and valued. That requires depth. That requires perspective. That requires conscious engagement. That requires strength.”

Love Life Desire Relationships Desired

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Don’t condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.”

Honesty Lies Prison Bullshit

Author:Steve Maraboli

“The truth is simple. Lies are complex. The truth comes in sentences. Lies... in paragraphs. Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you.”

Truth Honesty Communication Behavior Likes

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving, and a good person... you’re doing it wrong.”

Love Life Inspiration Truth Spiritual Kindness Honesty Caring Generous Actions Loving

Author:Steve Maraboli

“The truth is never dressed for the occasion.”

Truth Honesty

Author:Steve Maraboli

“I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane.”

Love Passion Sex Relationships Honesty Conversation Companionship

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest.”

Honesty Empowering

Author:Steve Maraboli

“In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.”

Philosophy Religion Faith Sacred Actions Verb

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.”

Life Inspirational Ideas Philosophy Motivational Happiness Success Poison Spoil Aware Shelf Life Refresh

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Playfulness and Passion… Friendship and Intimacy… I want a relationship with a good flirt to roast ratio.”

Passion Relationships Intimacy Flirting Friendships

Author:Steve Maraboli

“She is a puzzle of ever-changing pieces... But not one to be solved or completed; One to be appreciated and loved. A breathtaking tapestry of possibilities with a passion and loyalty you'll never forget.”

Love Poetry Passion Relationships Poet Loyalty

Author:Steve Maraboli

“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

Love Life Truth Relationships Delusion Broken Heart Worth It Crying

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.”

Life Motivational Action Success Inspirational Quotes Praise

Book:Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.”

Life School Hero Teachers

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”

Love Inspirational Motivational Action Happiness Success Hope Nature Abundance Choice

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”

Inspirational Heart Soul Inspiration Hope Friendship Friends Medicine Vitamins

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.”

Women Boys Woman Insecure Empower Man Up

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.”

Love Inspiration Evil History Tyrants

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.”

World Evil Terror Hopeless

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Take note of Who’s Who and What’s What in your life. The people, the habits, the diet, the routines… Are they driving you forward or crazy?”

People Routine Habits Diet

Author:Steve Maraboli

“If you're offended by my boundaries, then you're probably one of the reasons I need them.”

People Inspirational Boundaries Offended Let Go

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Energy tells the truth… Some people feel like the spiritual equivalent of stubbing your toe on the coffee table. No Thanks.”

People Spirituality Energy Toxic

Author:Steve Maraboli

“When masks fall off, don’t focus on where they fall, focus on who they reveal. If you allow it, chaos will be a great illuminator. Ignore the noise, but pay attention to the direction in which it comes. Situations like this reveal who’s who and what’s what. The noise is just a distraction.”

People Behavior Chaos Noise Pay Attention Mask

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Maybe they’re a 'God-send', but don’t let that sway you… so was The Flood.”

People Behavior Flood God Send

Author:Steve Maraboli

“You know what? Some people just suck. You can drive yourself crazy trying to figure out why or you can just accept it for what it is and move on.”

People Letting Go Disappointment Let Go Move On

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Behavior speaks… Actions reveal… Anything else is lies. Maybe to you. Maybe to themselves. Maybe both… but lies nonetheless.”

Behavior Lies Actions

Author:Steve Maraboli

“I got to the point where I stopped asking questions because I didn't want to be lied to. Abuse confuses you like that... Instead of walking away from the liar, you find ways to deal with the lies.”

Lies Abuse Toxic Relationships Liar

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you; it’s that you keep believing them.”

Wisdom Inspiration Truth Power Lies Lie Liar

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder… If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?”

Truth Lies Guru Master

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Nobody hates being lied to more than a liar.”

Lies Liar

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.”

Success Behavior Lies Excuses

Author:Steve Maraboli

“We live in a multidimensional world. Why would you live a one-dimensional love? If you love someone... feel it, speak it, show it, be it.Do more than tell them… show them. Let them feel your dedicated respect and your unwavering devotion. Ensure that your commitment and passion are known and unquestionable. Show them what they mean to you… what they are to you. And… if you don’t feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner… be kind enough to let them go… so they can find someone who will.”

Love Relationships Marriage Respect True Love

Author:Steve Maraboli

“Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing ideas. For me, the longer the creed the more it has been diluted, manipulated, and spoiled. The results of this creed poisoning can be seen in the behavior of its followers. We have all heard the expression, “The devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.”

Love Ideas God Religion Peace Acceptance Integrity Respect Devil Unity Creed

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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