T. D. Jakes Quotes

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

I'm more than just a shooter.

I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that—when properly read and followed—reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.