Let go of yesterday.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I’ve learned never to say never.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.