There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.
Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.
As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.
I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.
Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.
To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.