"The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money."
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"It felt like a new day."
"Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true."
"If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else."
"Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others."
"there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it"
"I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period."
"Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky."
"I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is."
"I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was."
"I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well."
"[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that."
"I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl.""
"I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well."
"A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination."
"Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness."
"In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive."
"What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong."
"I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being."
"Good luck - it's always ready to use in case."