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Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, i feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive, too mushy. too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a raindrop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all...look around you. Take and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

look

Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart.Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. and, more important, how does he treat you? when you're dating a man, you should always feel good. You should never feel less than. You should never doubt yourself.

honestly

when we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who...instead of much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair of confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness.

Later that day...

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.

my wish for you!

My wish for you is that this life comes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small. You never need to carry more than you can hold. And while you're out there getting where you're getting to i hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same things too. Yeah, this is my wish.

i choose...

I choose to live by choice, not by chance. I choose to be motivated, not manipulated. I choose to be useful, not used. I choose to make changes, not excuses. I choose to excel, not compete. I choose self-esteem, not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not to the random opinion of others.