“Embrace your past, but live for now.”

I used to want you so bad, I’m so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

There are times i hate you cause i cant erase the times you hurt me and put tears on my face.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don’t like to comb my hair.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Acting is easier and smoother than singing – it’s less drama.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

It’s easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own.

I think it’s important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it’s the core of who I am.

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

Destiny’s Child will always be No.1 on my list.

Eeveryone says you can only fall in love one, but thats not true because every time i see you i fall in love with you all over again.

Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don’t change?

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.

This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.

Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.

Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.