"When you've worked as hard, and done as much, and strived, and tried, and given, and pleaded, and bargained, and hoped: surrender. When you have done all you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself."
-Oprah

I heard Oprah's story years ago on her 20th Anniversary DVD and it has impacted my life.

There are times I get so frustrated in wanting things to happen when I want them to. I've learned after doing everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I can, I have to let it go. It's no longer in my control and in order to live, be sane, and healthy, I have to surrender it and give it up.

I've surrendered when it came to relationships, my career, my housing, and more.

"I just want to play happy people. I'm a commercial kind of gal, and yeah, I would love to do a Monster, but I don't have any grand aspirations to do my Academy Award-winning movie. I love Kate Winslet, but I know I couldn't have her career. Her choices are so fascinating and character-driven. But you gotta drag me to see Babel, you gotta drag me to see Children of Men. The Notebook is one of my all-time favorite movies."
-Katherine Heigl, Entertainment Weekly (#938 June 8, 2007)

“I know that every thought that I think, every thought that I have, that moves into action is going to create an equal and opposite reaction. So everything that I put out into the world is going to come back. It’s the golden rule on steroids.” -Oprah

"When you don't believe children, you rob them."
-Sandy "Pepa" Denton, Let's Talk About Pep (Pg. 20)

"It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness -- cry and then walk -- but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order."

-Mona Gray
An Invisible Sign of My Own (Pg. 196)
by Aimee Bender

To tell him, for they rarely did anything. Even after many years in the profession, he still asked himself why they were so afraid of being different.

-Veronika Decides To Die, Paulo Coelho
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