I spoke up because I feel deeply that the secrecy of shame plays a significant part in what has kept this shift from happening before now, but never has there been a more urgent time to make sure our voices are used for truth, and I failed in that regard Monday night.

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You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

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I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

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Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

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I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

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There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

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If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

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I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

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From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

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The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

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My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

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'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

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I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.

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