Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can’t advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Self-love is the starting point for everything.
See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.
God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
In every crisis there is a message...
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once – children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work – and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.
Faith is the flip side of fear.
Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn’t guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.
There are no meaningless experiences.
Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn’t affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.
The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation’s racial divide.