C.L. Brown Quotes

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

Tape record your parents' laughter

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.