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> [“Our job (as practitioners) is to settle under our own individual ego self needs and to allow ourselves to be guided by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cherionna-menzam-sills/our-job-as-practitioners-is-to-settle-under-our-own-individual-ego/)

[Cherionna Menzam-Sills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cherionna-menzam-sills/)

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> [I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-have-to-understand-what-my-strengths-and-limitations-are-and-work/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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> [“Vast historical changes in the last 500 years in the West have slowly created a world in which the individual is commonly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-cushman/vast-historical-changes-in-the-last-500-years-in-the-west-have-slowly/)

[Philip Cushman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-cushman/)

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> [“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/somehow-they-fail-to-see-that-for-someone-aggravated-by-depression/)

[Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/)

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> [“Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-rose-kingma/be-sure-it-s-your-real-self-you-re-showing-because-it-is-your-real/)

[Daphne Rose Kingma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-rose-kingma/)

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