J.J. Brown Quotes
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
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.
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.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.
He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.
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.