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Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom QUOTES

Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom QUOTES

1 " When I’m having one of those moments when I don’t want to do something, I remind myself that there was a time when I couldn’t do it. The blessing is in the fact that you still get to do it. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

2 " Despite what anybody may have to say to you or about you today, you are enough. Yesterday, you were enough. Today, you are enough. Tomorrow, you’ll be enough. Forever, you’re enough. Change the way you think, baby. Don’t give control over your life, your self-perception, to people who have no business having that kind of power. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

3 " love the Lord. I am a Christian. But I’m definitely not religious. I see how religion, particularly as an institution, has caused all kinds of separation between people who need each other. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

4 " there will be folks around you trying to convince you that you are crazy. Or they’ll say it’s the devil. They told Jesus the same thing, you know. He’s healing people and working miracles and those daggone church folks claim he’s doing it by the power of the devil. So if people did it to him, they’ll do it to you. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

5 " Work on your dash, honey. You know . . . that line between the year of your birth and the year of your death that shows up on the tombstone "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

6 " takes a lot of time, patience, and love to forgive, so definitely do it when the time is right. But please do it. The pain you are holding in your heart because of it is keeping you from your most amazing life. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

7 " Go to the root of your hurt so you can stop dumping your pain on people you don’t know on the internet. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

8 " Look at you not needing measurements and things. Cooking by the spirit is the only way, honey. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

9 " Baby, when everything and everyone is telling you that you can't do something, there's still a way. When you get to the crossroads and start feeling like you can do it, but you can't figure out what's next, I want you to whisper this to yourself: Patricia Blackstock Johnson. I want you to remember that if Tab's mama can put a pencil in her mouth to hit record on her tape recorder, what can you not do? Where there's a will, there's a way. All you have to do is have the willpower to keep going. Even when it looks like it's going to be over or the storm is too powerful, honey, stay in a state of gratitude. Give God praise in advance. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

10 " the more you understand how worthy you are, the more likely you’ll find your strength again. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

11 " I know what society says. I know what the culture demands. But at what point are we going to get off that ride? "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

12 " let us acknowledge that our true self is enough, and stop it. You’ll probably be more productive that way. And you’ll definitely feel free. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

13 " Just because you see me out in my dress smiling doesn’t mean I’m not hurting, or that I didn’t want to sleep in. It means that despite everything I still showed up. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

14 " rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle once said, and it rings true: If your circle does not serve you or does not make you better, you ain’t in a circle—you’re in a cage. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

15 " Find your lane, baby. I’ve seen highways with six, sometimes eight lanes. If everyone is going the same way, then everyone is going to pick a lane and ride in it. Yes, depending on the lane chosen, some folks are going to get there a little bit quicker and some are going to take their time. But we’re all on the same road. You don’t have to do everything just like somebody else to be successful. Figure out your own way and be alright with getting off on a different exit, your exit. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

16 " at one point in time, that tradition, that way of doing things, was new, too. Whoever created the traditional way of doing [fill in the blank] was an innovator. So what’s stopping you from innovating, too? "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

17 " Sometimes as we grow, we will inevitably shed some folk naturally from our lives. But losing them isn’t going to stunt your growth. Nope, not one single bit. You’re going to keep growing. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

18 " You never know whose chains you’ll unlock by having the courage to tell your truth, and you may even unlock your own. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

19 " sometimes an interruption is a sign that something needs to be tended to. So if it requires my energy and time in order to make room for peace within, then I handle it as it comes. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

20 " We know that death and life are in the power of the tongue, and yet we use our words to put people who are different from us, or who don’t believe the way we believe, in a kind of bondage. I’ve seen this happen, especially with the LGBTQIA+ community. Some families who have children or family members who are LGBTQIA+ have this notion that these beautiful humans are not okay and are constantly telling them that they are living in sin or going to hell, or that something is wrong with them. That is just not right. I’ve met so many children and adults whose family have turned their backs on them for simply existing. People who have been rejected because of who they are, for being the way that God created them. Honey, just because someone is different from you does not make them wrong. It just simply makes them different. We are all different, and we should all be able to live our lives as we feel we were created to live it, without judgment, without hate being spewed at us, and without worry about whether a family member—someone who claims to love us—will turn on us. Turning your back on anyone is not an action rooted in love. "

― , Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom