Mira Kirshenbaum Quotes

• Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.

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  Being Yourself   Love Is   Long  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.160, Harmony

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• Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

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  Positive   Effort   Outcomes  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (1999). “The Gift of a Year: How to Give Yourself the Most Meaningful, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Year of Your Life”, Dutton Adult

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• Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.

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  Being Yourself   Rejection   Enemy  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.87, Harmony

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• The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.

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  Secret  

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• Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally -- living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.

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  Exercise   Emotional   Self  

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• But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.

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  Being Yourself   Home   Emotional  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.56, Delta

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• Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

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  Being Yourself   Successful   Emotional  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.40, Delta

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• Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

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  Being Yourself   Real   Helping  

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.22, Harmony

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