With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.