When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.
Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.
When you are a thankful person it releases joy.
If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.
Be a blessing to someone else.
When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.
Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.
Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!
Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.
Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.
You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.
It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.
If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.
When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.
When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.
I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.
It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both
I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"
I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.
The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
You can't do BIG things when you think "little".
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'
There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.
Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
