“The reality is, sometimes, you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. And you’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose.”

I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I have learned that it is no one else job to take care of me but me.

I’m no longer afraid of conflict, and I don’t think conflict is a bad thing.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It’s just so good for the baby and good for yourself.

If you’ve been doing all you can and it’s not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything.

There’s ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.