Tracy Garrison > Tracy's Quotes

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
― Maya Angelou

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
― Maya Angelou

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou

“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”
― Maya Angelou

“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Knowing your purpose focuses your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Knowing your purpose motivates your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“The way you see your life shapes your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.”
― Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”
― Anna Godbersen, Splendor

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi

“One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four