Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

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""The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.""

- Iyanla Vanzant

Compassion

"Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value."

- Iyanla Vanzant

Self-awareness

"I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be."

- Iyanla Vanzant

Self-awareness

"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."

- Iyanla Vanzant

Happiness

"One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers."

- Iyanla Vanzant

Relationships

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"The Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous."

- Elder Richard G. Scott

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"As leaders of the Church, there isn’t anything in this world we wouldn’t do that’s right for you. We have great confidence in you. You are not just ordinary young men and young women. You are choice spirits, many of you having been held back in reserve for almost 6,000 years to come forth in this day, at this time, when the temptations, responsibilities, and opportunities are the very greatest."

- President Ezra Taft Benson

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"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

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"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

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