“Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.”

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.

Prayer keeps me centered.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.

You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

You’ve got to love what’s yours.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

I know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.

How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.

I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.

If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.

I cried today and I cried yesterday, Salty tears rushing down. My face fastened breaths, palms in sweat and the unbearable guilt of my being.

We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

An empath does not sleep. She listens to the wind and wonders if its crying.

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.