She was beautiful outside, but to be honest, she was ugly inside. I never saw her the same way. A bad attitude makes you unattractive. It overrides what's outside. It's important to look good and develop our talents, to get a good education, and to stay in shape, but it's more important to keep a good attitude. Nobody wants to be around a sour, critical, condescending person.

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

Sometimes the people closest to you can't see the greatness in you.

Popularity is about wanting people to like you, but happiness is about liking yourself.

God sees everything. He's keeping the records. The Scripture says, "What you do in secret, God will reward in the open." Don't worry if you're not getting credit. Don't get discouraged if people don't thank you. God sees your sacrifice.

What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

Your job is not to try and make people like you. Your job is not to try to change people's minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.