Afeni Shakur Quotes

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.

I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He's left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.

I still wake up every day, so I'm winning.

I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

You've got to take the positives.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

I think the value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear. I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. That is not the -- I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I take each day as it comes and hope for the best.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

I truly have a lot of faith in the universe even when I'm down, I'm always good.

I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there's a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.

You just wake up every single day with a clear mind and basically just have fun and be positive, because God knows what could happen, you know?