The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Jazz is about being in the moment.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
It’s so easy to be insecure about your looks or if you’re wearing the right clothes, or your hair and makeup. And I think it’s just so important to stay true to who you are.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
That’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It’s about legacy, it’s about moments, it’s about being an icon – I’ll do what I do and the money will flow.
There’s always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There’s evil in all of us. It’s just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.
I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
There’s something about a humid, dusky evening that’s kind of sexy.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.
Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself.
When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s lives… for that I give thanks.
People can say what they want about me. But I’ve got a big heart and will keep going.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Who cares about the clouds when we’re together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
