The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they’re pretending to be something they’re not.
One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want-and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?
If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.
The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.
Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.
You can’t get mercy unless you give it. You can’t receive compassion unless you give it.
So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.
There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make peace with it.
Live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. You have a choice. Enjoy yourself.
To know that people care about how you’re doing when the doing isn’t so good, that’s what love is.
If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time.
As women we’ve been programmed to sacrifice everything in the name of what is good and right for everyone else. Then if there’s an inch left over, maybe we can have a piece of that. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can’t give what you don’t have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you’re running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.
It’s the airplane oxygen-mask theory: If you don’t put on your mask first, you won’t be able to save anyone else.
Mine is I’ve learned as much as I can learn doing this one thing. Now I need to move forward. And it happens when I’ve learned as much as I can learn at that thing. And then something else opens itself.
The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
They say getting thin is the best revenge. Success if much better.
When you nurture and support your body, it reciprocates. The basis of that support is exercise, like it or not. The most essential benefit is more energy; weight control is a bonus. I know for sure that taking care of your body, no matter what, is an investment, and the return is priceless.
Gossip... reflects the insecurity of those who initiate it.
For most of us who overeat, extra pounds correspond to unresolved anxieties, frustrations, and depressions, which all come down to fear we haven’t worked through.
When you know better, you do better.” – Maya Angelou.