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

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

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

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

The key to branding especially for smaller firms is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars some old and white others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

I love the 20 million people that live in my state and 100 million tourists.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.