Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.