“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- J.K. Rowling
“Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.”
- President Barack Obama
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
- Franz Kafka
“I want to continue to grow. To me the biggest sin of all sins is to be given a gift a talent because it’s actually a gift from God. To take that and not cultivate it, and make it grow, that’s the biggest sin in the world.”
- Michael Jackson
october 1981 Ebony magazine
RIP Michael Jackson
August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
21st century spiritual teacher
from A Return to Love
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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