Yong Kang Chan Quotes

• “Your pain needs to be recognized and acknowledged. It needs to be acknowledged and then released. Avoiding pain is the same as denying it.”

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• “Your inner child is waiting for a genuine, heartfelt apology.”

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• “Beneath anger, there are hurt feelings.”

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• “Pretending to be passionate when we are truly depressed doesn’t help. Numbing our feelings only makes things worse. Depression taught me to experience all of my feelings and not push them aside.”

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• “Intuition has always been my greatest gift. It has provided me with many ideas for my creative work and saved me from a lot of trouble. It’s just that when I feel stressed and desperate, I forget this gift.”

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• “The more you don’t want to be like your parents, the more you will resemble them.”

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• “You can’t change the outside without changing the inside.”

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• “Blocking our feelings and pretending they aren’t there doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”

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• “Words can’t harm you when they don’t mean anything to you.”

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• “People who have low self-esteem might not even know they have low self-esteem.”

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• “Anger tried to help me feel better about myself by pushing the blame onto someone else.”

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• “I mistakenly believed that I was my emotions.”

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• “Life isn’t about being strong or pretending we are strong to impress others. It takes courage to be authentic with our feelings and acknowledge that real strength comes from recognizing our moments of weakness.”

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• “True acceptance doesn’t require you to fit in or change who you are. It doesn’t have to be sought; it’s given to you.”

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• “Without the mind, the idea of worthiness would not exist.”

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• “You have no choice about what gets poured into your cup, but you have a choice as to what you accept and believe.”

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• “Once we let go of our low self-esteem identity, the mind will have to start all over again, collecting new information about us and building a new identity.”

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• “Empathy is my good friend, but she doesn’t allow me to be angry.”

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• “Telling a person who is depressed to have positive thoughts is the same as telling a sick person not to be sick. It doesn’t work.”

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• “When we accept that our parents will never be the way we want them to be, we can stop seeking love and acceptance from them and our hearts will become lighter.”

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• “I began to understand that I could not depend on them to provide me with affirmation and approval. To improve my relationship with my parents, I needed to change. I needed to give myself permission and approval to do what I wanted to do. If my parents couldn’t love me the way I wanted them to love me, then I would have to learn how to love myself.”

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• “When you hate your parents or dislike certain traits that they have, you are actually giving them more attention and directing your energy toward them. They occupy your headspace, so how could it not affect your choices in life.”

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• “When we feel lonely, we are not lacking in love. We are disconnected from love.”

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• “Although we want to be close with others, we maintain a distance so we won’t be hurt.”

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• “The ego only understands love from a survival perspective. It doesn’t understand love from a deeper, spiritual perspective.”

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