Having Feelings Isn’t an Absence of Strength

“Feelings aren’t an absence of strength. I know this for sure. So why should I pretend to have a sense of humor just to allow someone else to take a shot at me?”

~ Gabourey Sidibe
Author, Actress, Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding New Talent (2009), NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (2010) & Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead (2010)

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Letting Little Things Crush You

“If you live in an oppressive society, you’ve got to be resilient. You can’t let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.”

~ James Earl Jones,
Emmy Award (3X), Tony Award (2X), Golden Globe (1970), Grammy Award (1970),
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2008), Academy Honorary Award (2011),
Voice Arts Icon Award (2015) & Harvard University Honorary Doctor of Arts (2017)

The Kind of Self-Image You Can Live With

“To really live, that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can live with. You must find yourself acceptable to you.” 

~ Maxwell Maltz
Cosmetic Surgeon & Author

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Self-Esteem is a Necessity

“Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.” 

~ Maxwell Maltz
Cosmetic Surgeon & Author

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Our Self-Image & Our Habits

“Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.” 

~ Maxwell Maltz
Cosmetic Surgeon & Author

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Getting Ahead of Yourself

“Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.” 

~ Roger Staubach
a.k.a. “Roger the Dodger”, “Captain America” & “Captain Comeback”
Heisman Trophy (1963), Naval Academy Graduate (1965), Hall of Fame Quarterback – Dallas Cowboys (1969-1979), NFL Players Association Most Valuable Player (1971), Super Bowls VI (MVP) & XII Victories, Founder – Staubach Company (1977), Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor (1983), Pro Football Hall of Fame (1985), Office & Industrial Properties Executive of the Year (1998), Commercial Property News Corporate Services Executive of the Year (1999 & 2000) & NCAA “Teddy” Roosevelt Award – United States Naval Academy Football (2000)

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Your Best Inside & Out

“Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out”

~ Author Unknown

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The Un-Boxed You Dreaming with GOD

“This is a year, in the Hebrew Calender, of Divine Health, Divine Strength and Supernatural Breakthrough. And God does not want you to remain stuck, confined, by ‘boxes’ that people want to place you in OR maybe YOU placed yourself in. HE wants you to come out of the ‘box’. HE wants you to dream with HIM. God has a dream for your life; there is a God-Dream. No one can kill that God-Dream! Don’t live somebody else’s dream. God has something unique for you! So, dream with HIM and know HE will help you bring it to pass!”

~ Rabbi Jason Sobel
Rabbi (Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations – 2005), Founder – Fusion Global, Author, Spiritual Advisor – The Chosen TV Series, & Host – The Chosen Unveiled on TBN

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The Authentic Self

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“You should always be your authentic self; let people love the real you.”

~ Jekalyn Carr
Recording Artist. Speaker, Entrepreneur, Actress, Author, Billboard #1’s (8x), & GMA Dove Award

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A Life of Wealth, Health & Happiness

““I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.””

~ Jim Rohn,
Entrepreneur, Author & Speaker

Don’t Act Like Dust

“Dust settles, I don’t …”

~ Halle Berry,
Actress, Model & Film Producer

We Rise in Spite of the Bitter, Twisted Lies

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”

~ Maya Angelou,

Poet, Civil Rights Activist, Dancer,
Film Producer, Television Producer, Playwright,
Film Director, Author, Actress & Professor

Rejection

“”One thing Hollywood has taught me is to live with rejection. But I have also learned that rejection has nothing to do with me. It’s about business.,” “You can’t get hurt at every rejection; then you couldn’t be in entertainment.”” (1978)

~ Jayne Kennedy Overton,
Miss Ohio USA (1970), Actress, Model, Sportscaster, Emmy Award (1977), NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (1981), Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

Take the Time to Get to Know Yourself

“When you haven’t taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK
with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship,
then you can’t possibly find that person for you
because you don’t even know what you’re looking for.”

~ Keshia Knight Pulliam,
Actress

Not in Rivalry to Man

“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”

~ Indira Gandhi,
Stateswoman & Prime Minister of India (1966–77) & (1980-1984)

The Way You’re Living in the Meantime

“Faith is about how you live your life in the meantime, how you make decisions when you don’t know for sure what’s next. What you do with yourself between the last time you heard from God and the next time you hear from God is the ongoing challenge of a life of faith.”

~ Priscilla Marie ‘Cece’ Winans Love,
Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Talk Show Host, Speaker,
Author, Dove Awards (23X) Stellar Awards (15X) & Grammy Awards (12X)

Carrying Confidence

“Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.”

~ Sofia Vergara
Actress, Television Producer, Presenter, Model, Imagen Foundation Awards (2011), NAACP Image Awards (2011),
Screen Actors Guild (2012), Glamour Awards (2012), Screen Actors Guild (2013) & People’s Choice Award (2017)

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Company: Option vs. Necessity

“Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true; I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option and not a necessity.”

~ Keanu Reeves

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Your Behind-the-Scenes vs. Their Highlight Reel

“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our ‘behind-the-scenes’ with everyone else’s ‘highlight reel’.”

~ Steven Furtick
Pastor, Songwriter, Author, Founder & Lead Pastor – Elevation Church

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Finding You

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

~ Socrates,
Philosopher

Become Happy with Yourself

“Only people who are not happy with themselves are mean to others. Remember that.”

~ 8-Images Blogspot
Blogger

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Who You Pretend to Be

“… God cannot bless who you pretend to be. So, you might as well become who you are; everybody else is taken. There is something that He put inside of you.”

~ NAME
Founder, CEO and Senior Pastor – The Lighthouse Church & Ministries & Author

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Somebody Else’s Thought

“Really. What can somebody else’s thought do to you? I mean it can’t really hurt you.”

~ Joyce Meyer,
Author, Speaker & Philanthropist

Be Tough Enough to Follow Through

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

~ Rosalynn Carter
First Lady of the United States (1977-1981), Author, Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving (1998- ), National Women’s Hall of Fame (2002), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1999), Mental Illness Foundation Dorothea Dix Award (1988), Georgia Woman of the Year Award (1996), Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged (1996), United Nations Children’s Fund International Child Survival Award (1999), Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health – Institute of Medicine (2000), United States Surgeon General’s Medallion (2000) & American Peace Award (2009)

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Her Very Existence on Earth

“A woman who doesn’t apologize for her very existence on Earth is rare, and that’s what I wanted for myself.”

~ Gabourey Sidibe
Actress, Director, Author,
Women Film Critics Circle Awards (2009), Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards (2009),
National Board of Review (2009), Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2009), Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (2009),
Hollywood Film Festival (2009), Detroit Film Critics Society Awards (2009), Chicago International Film Festival (2009),
Satellite Awards (2010), NAACP Image Awards (2010), Iowa Film Critics Awards (2010), Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (2010),
Independent Spirit Awards (2010), Black Reel Awards (2010) & Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (2012)