I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

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Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

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Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

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Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

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Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

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There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

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Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

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To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

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I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

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You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

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Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

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No one looks stupid when they're having fun.

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Treat your career like a bad boyfriend...

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Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

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It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

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Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

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The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

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Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

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