J.J. Brown Quotes

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say thank you.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!

I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth it's a shield.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.