Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative

by Keke Palmer

I am not my work, but I do my work.

Who says America is the only place you can be “great”?

Staying focused on you, with how you feel being your greatest gauge, is the only way to reach your fullest potential.

discipline trumps talent. The whole experience was a testament to the power of discipline, which became my guiding principle: with discipline, anything is possible.

There’s not enough money that they can give you that will actually equate to what your actual worth is.

As long as we remember that the first shouldn’t be the only, and we continue to be the best in our respective fields regardless of our accolades.

And water only runs from the tap in one direction. So are you gonna move your cup in the direction that it’s going, or are you gonna try to force it to move in the opposite direction when it wasn’t meant to?

Forgiveness doesn’t mean reconciliation,

Everyone in life experiences trauma. All of us. There are some of us who survive and there are some of us who mentally become blocked.

The truth is there are people in your life right now who are distracting you from your purpose by telling you what they think you should do instead of what you want to do.

never let your dream die in the midst of doing the things you have to do to get what you need to invest in yourself.

No one has the right to center themselves in your dreams or try to deny you moments that are yours simply because they don’t understand your story.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”