"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."
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"Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling."
"I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights."
"Haters are my motivators"
"Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex."
"For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses."
"It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive."
"Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes."
"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique."
"I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion."
"I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules."
"I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person."
"It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned."
"There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything."
"So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius."
"We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy."
"Be kind to one another. Bye, bye."
"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
"Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."
"Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical."