What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.
There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.
I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.
If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered.
If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Make the right decision even when nobody’s looking and you will always turn out okay.
You can’t accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself.
What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.
Love is a lesson worth learning.
There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
When I didn’t have friends, I had books.
True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.
If it’s not hard, you’re not dreaming big enough!