Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) Quotes

“takes a lot of time, patience, and love to forgive, so definitely do it when the time is right. But please do it. The pain you are holding in your heart because of it is keeping you from your most amazing life.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Find something, anything, to thank God for and watch how your heart's posture will elevate you.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“It is important that we recognize the difference between being right and just being caught up in your feelings”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“This inclination to make the worst comment in order to get a reaction is dehumanizing, & it’s time for it to stop”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“To whom much is given, much is required”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“But I do not believe that guilt and shame is the way to bring people closer to God.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“But honey, some of y'all have let folks drive your car who shouldn't have even been allowed to ride in it. But there you are, handing over the keys to your mind, heart, and soul. Some people you let drive your car too long. They aren't doing any maintenance on it. Haven't contributed a gallon of gas, but they are still driving your life instead of you. Honey, time's up. It's time to take your keys to your car and your life back. You are the only driver.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

“When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.” —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“her capacity, the wisdom that she imparted to me my whole childhood, wasn’t diminished a single bit by her deafness—no matter to what degree it actually existed in my imagination.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Let’s get back to loving each other. Not from a distance. I mean up close. Let’s go see each other. Check on each other. Sometimes I think that’s all we need. Let’s tap into the spirits of our grandmas and great-grandmas, our granddaddies, aunts, and uncles. It feels good when you have family, and it feels even better when you’re together. There’s somebody out there who doesn’t have family. Who has to create one, not because they are far away like me, but because they literally don’t have anyone left. They are wishing they had someone they could call. So think about that, alright? Even if they cut up and act a fool sometimes, they are still your family, and you are a part of them. Go fix that thing.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Our grandparents, mothers, and fathers often do a phenomenal job in holding us together. But when God calls them home, that doesn’t mean the family should be scattered and divided. We are supposed to try to do our best to stick together and love each other, just like they taught us.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“I know how it feels to feel stuck. It’s uncomfortable. But there’s also a discomfort that comes when God has been trying to move you and you won’t move. He’ll make you uncomfortable until you get forced to move. He did that to me many times as well. Don’t wait until things get so bad that God has to make you so uncomfortable just to push you out of your comfort zone. Take those steps yourself. Be ready to take your leaps of faith. Trust yourself. Trust that gut, that feeling deep down on the inside. It’s there. That’s our gift. And remember, wherever you are, it’s only temporary.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“at one point in time, that tradition, that way of doing things, was new, too. Whoever created the traditional way of doing [fill in the blank] was an innovator. So what’s stopping you from innovating, too?”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“I know what society says. I know what the culture demands. But at what point are we going to get off that ride?”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“There are going to be parts of your journey that will require you to go it alone. Everyone can’t go with you. In fact, I’d argue that there are things that must be done on your own or you’ll never see the fullness of it. You’ll never get it done.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“I know people who won’t even go to the gym and work out unless they have someone with them. They want a workout partner, which is fine, but if they don’t have one, they just don’t go to the gym. Why is it okay to sacrifice your fitness goals because you are afraid to enter the building alone? No, honey. That’s not the way.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“know that returning negative energy to someone who is already sitting deep in it won’t change them or me. It will only put more negative energy into the world.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“But here’s the real catch: If you don’t have empathy, you might be quick to respond to that person with the same energy they’re giving. Then it becomes a never-ending circle of toxic communication.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Be careful about praying for more without praying that you are ready for it when more comes!”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Your dream is like your baby. When you first conceive, it’s important to get through the first trimester. However, just like with an actual baby, if you try to give birth in that first trimester, you will likely lose the dream. And yes, a baby can be born in the second trimester, but the complications are high and survival rates are low. The best outcome is for the baby—and your dream—to develop to full term before delivery. Give that dream time to develop.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“if you keep fighting those natural emotions, rest assured they will eventually fight against you.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Let us stop destroying our little boys’ emotional lives by preventing them from being able to express themselves.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“day by day, I stripped off all the stuff that wasn’t me. And honey, no wonder I was so sick. Tab was being suffocated. The true me was being smothered by the false mask I was wearing. Layers of other people, other voices, and other personalities that I’d accumulated while seeking validation came off. All the ways I was trying to fit in and be accepted were released. No wonder I was exhausted. It was tiring being someone else.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“We know that death and life are in the power of the tongue, and yet we use our words to put people who are different from us, or who don’t believe the way we believe, in a kind of bondage. I’ve seen this happen, especially with the LGBTQIA+ community. Some families who have children or family members who are LGBTQIA+ have this notion that these beautiful humans are not okay and are constantly telling them that they are living in sin or going to hell, or that something is wrong with them. That is just not right. I’ve met so many children and adults whose family have turned their backs on them for simply existing. People who have been rejected because of who they are, for being the way that God created them. Honey, just because someone is different from you does not make them wrong. It just simply makes them different. We are all different, and we should all be able to live our lives as we feel we were created to live it, without judgment, without hate being spewed at us, and without worry about whether a family member—someone who claims to love us—will turn on us. Turning your back on anyone is not an action rooted in love.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Let me share this with you: You can have some amazing mentors in your life. You can follow all the awesome influencers out there and they can certainly offer you guidance and inspiration in your decision-making and ideas. But you should never allow a person to influence you so much that you lose yourself in the process. Influence is just that: influence. It does not mean you have to be that person. It does not mean you have to do exactly what they’ve done. Your journey is unique to you.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Let’s choose joy and love. Let’s choose peace. And then once we’ve got it for ourselves, let’s spread it around. So, let go of trying to fit in. Let go of trying to please other people over yourself. You are an original creation. It’s okay to be whoever God created you to be. There’s nothing better than originality. When I let go of the old Tab, a weight was lifted. I thought, You mean to tell me all these years I was trying to fit in, trying to look and be and talk like other people, I was keeping myself from being free? Yep!”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“You deserve to know yourself. You deserve to love on yourself. Take yourself out. If you feel good about being with you then you can trust that the right person or people will feel good around you. You’ll also prevent yourself from falling for some foolishness. When you don’t know yourself, or what you like, you’ll fall for anything. We’re not doing that anymore, okay?”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“Whenever you find yourself focused on things that aren’t suited for you or holding on to things you clearly need to let go, it’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Who am I trying to be? Why do I resist being myself? I’m claiming that I’m “doing me,” but am I really? Love yourself first. Then you can go out and give other people love. Then you will know how to be loved. That might be why your relationships don’t work. Maybe every time you engage with someone, it fails because you don’t love yourself. You can’t teach them how to love you because you don’t know what that even entails. What does it mean to love you? You might be feeling lonely and praying that God sends you a partner, a lover. Well, the way you get there is learning how to partner with yourself. Be your own lover. Get to know you. Figure out what you love and like, so when somebody comes around and they are potentially that special one, you’ll be able to tell them what you need. If somebody asks you, “What you like to do?” and your answer is “I don’t know,” that’s your sign.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown

“I blew more time trying to be skinny. I worked out to be thin, never to be healthy. And my body eventually let me know just how that was working out for me. Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s okay to want to look good. But when the external supersedes the internal, you have a problem. If the only reason you are working out is to look better, that’s a problem.”
― Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom—A Vegan Cookbook and Inspirational Guide by Tabitha Brown