“Do it now. Every task becomes bigger by the hour. You’ll be contaminated by the worry you feel about whatever it is—and the more you put it off, the more fearful you become.”
Oprah.com
Category: Emotional Awareness
Storm Reid
“I Don’t waste energy on things you can’t change.’ Oprah told me that one day when we were having a conversation about my weird fear of being tall—I’m already 5’4″! Instead of putting negative energy out into the universe about something that’s set in stone, like my height, she said I should turn that energy into something positive and use it to make my dreams come true. So if I end up being 7 feet, then I’ll be 7 feet.”
Oprah.com
Andrew Garfield
“This means a great deal. Thank you so much. At a moment in time when maybe the most important thing we remember right now is the sanctity of the human spirit, it is the profound privilege of my life to play Prior Walter in Angels in America because he represents the purest spirit of humanity and especially that of the LGBTQ community. It is that spirit that says no to oppression, it is a spirit that says no to bigotry, no to shame, no to exclusion. It is a spirit that says we were all made perfectly, and we all belong. So I dedicate this award to the countless LGBTQ who have fought and died to protect that spirit. To protect that message for the right to live and love as we are created to… we are all sacred. Let’s just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked!“
Andrew Garfield’s acceptance speech for winning Best Actor Tony Award, 2018
Jimmy Fallon
“When something feels hard, remember that it gets better. Choose to move forward, don’t let anything stop you.”
People Magazine, 2018
Salma Hayek
“You are alone in reality. You are alone in life and, it’s a beautiful place to be IF you make peace with yourself. If you have a good relationship with yourself, there’s so much to find. We have so many possibilities. We don’t actually spend enough time with ourselves and, many times, we fall into the trap to do things so that other people have a perception of who we are. But, the… mystery of life to me is, the relationship with ‘you and you. Conviction is the place where, even if you made a mistake, mistakes are sometimes the greatest gifts that you can have.”
Oprah Interview, 2018
Mariska Hargitay
“They way I’ve lived with loss is to lean into it. As the saying goes, the only way out is through. In my life, certainly I’ve tried to avoid pain, loss, feeling things. But I’ve learned instead to really lean into it, because sooner or later you have to pay the piper. Leaning into my loss has been a way of getting myself back. I’m not saying it’s easy, and it certainly hasn’t been for me. There’s been a lot of darkness. But on the other side things can be so bright.”
People Magazine, 2018
Selena Gomez
(Selena Gomez, on managing her anxiety and depression)
“I think it’s a battle I’m gonna have to face for the rest of my life, and I’m okay with that because I know that I’m choosing myself over anything else.”
Chatter Magazine, 2018
Jessica Williams
“With Twitter and Instagram, it’s easy to get wrapped up in someone else’s stuff and feel this false sense of what am I doing? What feels healthy to me is thinking about my childhood self and thinking, would I be proud of what I’m doing now? If that answer is yes, then I’m doing something right. If it’s no, I’ve got to go back to something I learned in yoga class. When I’m trying to do downward dog without accidently farting, my instructor will tell me to gently correct- so I gently correct my path instead of yelling at myself.”
Cosmo Magazine 2017
Will Smith
“The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you’re with. You have to every single day — mind, body, and spirit — wake up with a commitment to be better.” Huffington Post
Miranda Kerr
“You’ve really got to practice loving yourself.” People Magazine