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01Undated

Anxiety is nothing more than prolonged fear. It comes with prolonged chemical release that does incalculable damage to your neurons over time.

Toni Sorenson / quote

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02Undated

Think about what you are thinking about. Be aware of your own thoughts!

Toni Sorenson / quote

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03Undated

Only when people are aware will they start to care.

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04Undated

Once you are aware that you have a weak spot you can begin to strengthen it, work on it, and finally turn it into a stronghold. But nothing can happen until you become aware.

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05Undated

Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just became you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.

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06Undated

Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just because you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.

Toni Sorenson / quote

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07Undated

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

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08Undated

Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It’s imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.

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09Undated

You’ll never get it if you can’t see yourself having it.

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10Undated

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take.

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11Undated

The happiest, most successful, extraordinary people are not people who have coasted through life. They’ve fallen, they’ve been shoved; they’ve known loss and defeat. They’ve struggled out of the darkest, deepest pits and they’ve emerged with their hearts softened, their minds sharpened, and their spirits concerned for others. These are the rare beautiful people who know how to think their way to greatness. They understand that a great life begins with a great thought.

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12Undated

We humans have two things that set us apart and make us able to do what no other form of life can—reason and feel. That’s because we have brains and hearts.

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13Undated

The journey to the center of your soul doesn’t start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it’s a place only the rare dare venture.

Toni Sorenson / quote

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14Undated

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let go and let God, then we gain a peace that surpasses understanding.

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15Undated

Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

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16Undated

When your resources are focused on what has been you cannot create all that can still be.

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17Undated

Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood dreams back, beckon the best of you and breathe deeper than you have in a very long time. Believe in the holdings of your heart. You can become anyone and anything your heart desires once you clear the clutter and stuff yourself with positive power and intentions.

Toni Sorenson / quote

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18Undated

Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?

Toni Sorenson / quote

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19Undated

Don’t be defined by someone else’s definition of you.

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20Undated

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

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21Undated

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

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22Undated

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

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23Undated

To understand God we must understand ourselves. If I give you an apple and ask you, “What is that?” you reply, “An apple.”“How do you know it’s an apple?”“Because it just is.”“How did it get to be an apple?”“It came from an apple.”“Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ you can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God.

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24Undated

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Toni Sorenson / quote

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