If there is no light at the end of the tunnel, march on down there and turn into yourself.

The light at the end of the tunnel may be dark it’s up to you to make it brighter – you have to help yourself

My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.

You can’t climb out of a hole if you keep digging it more profound.

You don’t need closure. You just need to give yourself permission to move on.

If you keep going backwards with the same people that God has intentionally removed from your life, you will continue to stay stuck. There is

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power within you.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

You can only rely on yourselves when hardship strikes.

Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!

I got my own back.

Help yourself first, and then you can try to help others.

You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It’s a choice and it’s YOUR CHOICE.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others

And I wasn’t great at talking for myself either. We had something important in common, then, a personality quirk I didn’t share with Alaska or anybody else, although almost by definition Lara and I couldn’t express it to each other.

I’ve got to pick myself up
Dust myself off
And start all over again.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

I couldn’t imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Never settle for being a character in someone else’s story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

It’s better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

And now I’ll do what’s best for me.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again.

Encourage one another and you must keep that same encouragement yourself first, to encourage others, second keep your head up and count all joy in the worst of times.

By increasing our awareness. We invite more of ourselves to the party.

Willingly give, and graciously receive; that is phenomenal advice. What you do to and for another, you do to and for yourself.

Money coming, money gotta flip it. I ain’t waiting on nobody, I’mma go get it.

The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.

You are the mental architect of your own destiny.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge.

Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.

‘You need to believe that you can sleep again.’
‘Since when was sleep a matter of faith?’

The first step is you have to say that you can.

And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing her mother and her friends and herself – those are awful things, but she did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

If you not in your own lane, create one.

I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.

Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it’s not so bad
I don’t worry and I don’t weep. In fact I’m glad.
Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light.
I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep.
I hoof around my beddie just a-tappin’ my toes
Before I know what’s happened I’m a-ready to doze
Got some partners I can count the boogie-woogie sheep
I dance myself to sleep.

Hours into the night, sleepless Elijah sat up in his bed and rubbed his face trying to put his thoughts and feelings together. He went into the kitchen, turned on the light, and poured himself a cup of milk. He gulped it after taking a deep breath trying to ease the perturbed feeling in his stomach and the weight in his chest.

Gratitude changes everything. Be thankful today.

A barber cannot use his skills on himself.