"It is not your job to make anyone else happy. You cannot please your parents. You can never please your children! Do what you do, to the best of your ability, with a loving intent, for the good of all involved."
— Iyanla Vanzant
"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing."
— Brian L. Weiss
"In every or any situation, regardless of the mitigating factors, you can always change your mind. If what you are thinking, saying or doing in response to any person or experience is not bringing you peace, change your mind! Changing your mind about anything or anyone transforms how those things or persons impact your life."
— Iyanla Vanzant
"To live abundantly, you must be courageous. You must be able to go outside of the box, lines, dimension, energy, set point, field, 'comfort zone' or whatever adjective humanity chooses to describe its current confines. Be like a child. Be an explorer who is ever-excited, ever-reaching, ever-searching, not because of lack but because of the courageous heart. Get out of old patterns, systems and ideas that have controlled your reality."
— Darius M. Barazandeh
"When you are judged, bullied or rejected, you have to be strong in your heart."
— Sierra McGill
"People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back."
— Joel Osteen
"One way to help prevent the past from determining your future is to stop believing that it will."
— Dr. Charles Glassman
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
— Buckminster Fuller
"Everybody is a genius."
— Albert Einstein
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."