Thoughts to Live By
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” – Audre Lorde
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared”
“Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck. Write them on a tablet on your heart.” Prov 3:3
“How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?” –Lauryn Hill
“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” – Brian Tracy.
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” ~ Confucius
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” – Buddha
If you judge people, you have no time to love them! – Mother Theresa
“God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.”
-Mary Kay Ash
“There is always someone else out there who would die for the things you take for granted.” – J Cheng
“I’m telling you that if you ever want anything in life, just go for it and get it for yourself, don’t wait. Not for this instance necessarily, but for other things in life. If you wait, you might lose it. ” – words of a wise woman
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness” – Oprah
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is: a dissatisfaction with self.” – Joan Didion
“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?” – Fanny Brice
A setback is a setup for a comeback!” –Willie Jolley, Author
“There are lots of things to think about, but nothing to worry about.” –Matt Koepke
“The best way to get to know a person is not by the answers they give, but by the types of questions they ask” – Nailah Ife Sims
People often hate what they cant have, what they cant be, and what they don’t know.
The cheaper the merchandise, the higher the gloss. True of furniture, knives, people.
You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Don’t let someone else create your world for you, for when they do, they will always make it too small.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily…
Worry looks around. Sorry looks back. Faith looks up.
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. – Richard Rybolt
“And now I’m like a major threat/ Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget” – 2Pac, “Holla if You Hear Me”
“At the end of the day were all just PEOPLE. I dont live to please anyone but MYSELF. Because they’re gonna talk about you whether you do what they want or what you want. Give em something to talk about 
“-Nia Sunshine Brown
