173 Quotes by Harriet Lerner

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    The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

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    Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.

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    It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

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    Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

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    It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

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    Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

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