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Things to Remember in Life
Listed below are some things which are daily reminders. Things you perhaps may forget if you enter a complacent state.
Failure is so many wonderful things; it’s motivation to do better next time, a learning opportunity to see what you did wrong, and ultimately the proof that you at least tried.
— “So Much I Wanna Tell You” Page 37
[…] when you find something good in this world, you’d best hold on. With love, not desperation.
— Queen Sugar: Season 2/ Episode 8 “Freedom’s Plow” [Mid-Season Finale]
If you set after doing something and learn a lesson on the way, even if you lose, it’s still a victory.
— “Dream Variations” Queen Sugar
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
— Amanda Litman (Quoting Ann Richards) – The Breakfast Club [10/25/2017]
When people are afraid, they often behave with cruelty.
— Alias Grace: Season 1/ Episode 5
You gotta toughen up in life, and get weaker in the scenes.
— Better Things: Season 2/ Episode 6 “Eulogy”
Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others.
— Grace – Alias Grace: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Part 2”
Don’t confuse what you’re capable of vs. what you’re willing to do.
— Amari Sali
A strong woman doesn’t get there just because she woke up one day and she was strong. You know, a strong woman is almost earned. […] You go through a series of events in your life that make you stronger each time and if you can keep getting up and dusting yourself off, it’s very rewarding.
— “Episode 10: Kris Jenner” Never Before with Janet Mock
Sometimes you do have to hit people with an extreme example for them to even see a modicum of what you are trying to say.
— Amanda Seales (The Breakfast Club – 8/9/2017)
No, you’re not a diva, you’re not difficult, you’re just difficult to fuck over. […] You’re not difficult, you’re just particular. You’re not demanding, […] you just hold people accountable. […] You get these things misconstrued and people will manipulate you to feel like these things that are actually positive are negative.
— Amanda Seales (The Breakfast Club – 8/9/2017)
If you’re not living in your truth, you’re not going to be able to be where you’re supposed to be, and I consider your truth to be your compass to your purpose. And if you’re not living in that truth, then you are being steered by other worldly things that don’t necessarily have your best interest at heart.
— Amanda Seales (The Breakfast Club – 8/9/2017)
The juice is going to be worth the squeeze
— Keith David (as per Merle Dandridge)
If we avoided every place where enmity and strife once confounded us, we’d all be stranded where we stand.
— “Changing Seasons.” Greenleaf
Patience doesn’t mean standing still while waiting for something to change. Patience is lovingly guiding people who don’t understand into a greater understanding.
— “House Rules.” Greenleaf
God did not mold you to be no peacekeeper.
— Queen Sugar: Season 2/ Episode 5 “Caroling Dusk”
If you try to erase sin with sin, you’ll only add to your sins.
— Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu
God sent you his teachings, but are you listening?
— “Nest Box.” Ozark
Your life isn’t ruined. It’s just waiting for you to come back and sparkle it up.
— “Beneath Her Heart.” Orphan Black
[…] Envy seeks to destroy.
—Intro (Location 66) – “Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me” by Janet Mock
My mother always said when someone invites you to a new room, make sure you show up. Don’t go as someone else.
— “What Do I Care For Morning.” Queen Sugar
Passing the buck is how you get passed over.
“Blind Items.” Daytime Divas
Coincidence changes your day and fate changes your life.
— Pretend We’re Kissing
Never get on the bad side of small minded people who have a little authority.
— Gifted
We expect leaders to take us where we want to go. The problem, it seems to me, begins when they don’t. When things do not improve and yet these leaders keep expecting us to get on their bus. I think this is when leaders become something else. […] Politicians.
— “Polyphony.” Sense8
Your life is either defined by the system or by the way you defy the system.
— “Fear Never Fixed Anything” Sense8
You should doubt only a man who changes his story.
— This Beautiful Fantastic
Faith’s about what you think, feel, not what you know.
— Gifted
You choose people based on what they could be, not what they are. People don’t change, except for the worst in most cases.
— In The Morning
It becomes usual what happens, never let it become normal.
— “4.21.2017“ Real Time with Bill Maher
The sparkle depends on the flaws of the diamond.
— “Born To Trouble.” Greenleaf
“Most leaps of faith are often preceded by a shove.”
— I’m Dying Up Here
Remember that everyone’s individual experience is going to be different. From the day we are born we are building or reality, like a house. Some of our houses will be further along than others and some houses will based onthe materials we used to build it. When someone with a new idea comes along and asks you to take clicks away from the foundation of your house, you’re going to be hesitant because those are some of your first bricks. Those are the ideas that your parents, your friends and family have taught you. The older you get, the more unwilling you’ll be to make a major change to your house. That’s ok but you’re not just a house. You’re a house in a neighborhood, in a city, in a country, in the world. Before you clap back at someone who has a different opinion than you, remember you can’t just walk into their house and start renovations. That’s not your crib. Try and understand their experiences, and work on renovations together.
“There’s No Merit Badge For Allies” – Mic
An old lifer once told you, ‘All men suffer loss.’ But you know now that not all losses are the same. Only the ones that stop you from ever fighting again make you a loser. Make you go back to what’s easy. What you know. […] All the other losses just serve to strengthen you. Prepare you for what’s ahead.
— Imperial Dreams
[…] miracles don’t simply happen. They’re a product of a limitless imagination and just a little bit of moxie.
— “Out of Darkness.” Beyond
We’re not all going to play the same role. There’s agitators, there’s advocates, and then there are implementors and we all have a certain role that we play.
— “1/23/2017 – Angela Rye” The Breakfast Club
Cynicism is just an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
— “Everybody Lies.” Emerald City
Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
— “All The Things.” Good Behavior – Originally Said By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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