a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don't look like them i tell her

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative

i reduced my body to aesthetics forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs foolish enough to not realise i was already living in one

we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view - live fully

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

despite knowing they won't be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both

if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance

borders are man-made they only divide us physically don't let them make us turn on each other - we are not enemies

never feel guilty for starting again

i will no longer compare my path to others - i refuse to do a disservice to my life

trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does - it is speaking to you

it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already

their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not - human

how do i shake this envy when i see you doing well sister how do i love myself enough to know your accomplishments are not my failures - we are not each other's competition

we need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other - medicine

you are a mirror if you continue to starve yourself of love you'll only meet people who'll starve you too if you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who'll love you too - a simple math

what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world that convinced her she did not

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

When your own romantic life is falling apart everyone elses looks fabulous.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

You have to respect all your competitors.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.

Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It's just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.