Russell Simmons Quotes

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

If I can change, anybody can change.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Turn your scars into stars.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.