Elissa Gabrielle Quotes

In my life, I have learned to accept personal responsibility for my circumstances and that acceptance has given me the power to change them."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Liberation is a beautiful thing when embarking on the glorious moment when the truth about someone is revealed to you, in bold and vibrant color and you have the courage, with wide-open eyes to see reality more vividly, and the wisdom to act accordingly. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Today is the day to move pass your past, move closer to your dreams, rise above your detractors, feel the fear and do it anyway, stoop below your ego, get out of your own way, and allow your life to amaze you. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

We don't get better by chance, we only become better by absolute change. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Although my speaking will reflect the grace and mercy I've been offered and humbly accepted, I don't have to say much because words only go so far. At the end of the day, it will not be the year of my birth or the year of my death that will matter; it will be that hyphen in the midst of it all that will display how I lived my life; will tell a full and complete story; will say more than my mouth could utter.

My actions, my trials, my triumphs, my defeats, my victories - my life will preach louder than an auditory testimony ever could.

I am working on the person I want to remember. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Stop making your self-worth conditional on other people. No one, and I mean absolutely no one has the power to devalue your existence. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

A real woman can compliment and celebrate another woman's beauty, intelligence, passion, sex appeal, and creativity without compromise because a real woman understands that when she lifts her sisters up, it takes nothing away from her and she elevates herself in the process. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

My life's goal is not trying to prove others wrong. My sole focus is on proving myself right."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Don't highlight the flaws in my structure if you're unwilling to repair the cracks in your very own foundation."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

God speaks through trials...Listen. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

Being of service to others is the price we should pay as a form of gratitude for the gift of life."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

If you have a body you are a dancer ~ Gabrielle Roth

The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching. ~ Colette

We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action. ~ Gabrielle Giffords

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit. ~ Gabrielle Roth

I witness that I'm out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

If you didn't let some things go, you'd spend your whole life fighting. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list, ~ Gabrielle Giffords

I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, So let's get married. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

As I retraced the steps and missteps of my life, I began to stop avoiding memories that triggered emotional flashbacks, and I chose to embrace them as revelations. Each revealed a bread crumb that I had dropped along the way, leading me further on my path to understanding who I truly am. ~ Gabrielle Union

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched... ~ Gabrielle Zevin

She took a second look at him, at his fancy tailored suit. Dark gray with pinstripes. Oh please, like she'd really believe he was a dom at all? "Gabrielle Anderson. Are you sure you're Master Marcus?"
"Why would you think I'm not Master Marcus?" he asked. Well, good grief. She waved a hand at him and kept the duh from slipping out. Just in case he really was Master Marcus. Maybe he hadn't changed yet or something. "The suit? Where are your leathers or latex or ... biker jacket or vest? And black? Did you forget to wear black?"
He stared for a second, as if she'd turned into a drooling idiot, and then simply roared. Deep, full laughter - amazing coming from someone who looked like he should have a stick up his ass. ~ Cherise Sinclair

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies. ~ Gabrielle Union

They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget your background and however you were raised. You want to have a different route to get to that goal. ~ Gabrielle Dennis

I know you may not love me, Gabrielle, but I thought you had some affection for me. Perhaps I was wrong." His voice, gone quiet, was even scarier than his previous angry shouting. "You know better," Gabi said quietly. "I ... I don't know if what we share is love. The word seems too mild to explain what I feel for you. It's not cute or schmaltzy or romantic. It scares me." Her voice had dropped to a whisper. "The thought of being without you, it's worse than contemplating death. ~ Sharon Hannaford

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I think being a singer-songwriter ... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. ~ Gabrielle Aplin

If you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

He's in the military, serving overseas in Afghanistan."
"Well done. You're marrying an American hero," A.J. says.
"I guess I am."
"I hate those guys," he says. "They make me feel totally inadequate. Tell me something shitty about him so that I feel better. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries. -Mr. Kipling ~ Gabrielle Zevin

You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way."
"You mean Uncle Yuri?"
"He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if he were fifty years younger. Et cetera. Et cetera."
"That a lot of very important 'ifs', Jacks. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing. ~ Gabrielle Anwar

You have to develop a very thick skin. ~ Gabrielle Union

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Union is my best friend. ~ Hill Harper

Jesus, Gabrielle! Are you having a seizure?!"

"Please please please can I keep him mom? I promise I'll take care of him! Oh baby, I'll take care of him!"

"Good lord. She's finally gone around the bend. Can I have your Manolos when they come to take you away? ~ N.M. Silber

I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that. ~ Gabrielle Reece

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done. ~ Gabrielle Reece

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares. ~ Gabrielle Aplin

Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito. ~ Gabrielle Reece

In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Um…" Simon started slowly "at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database of international criminals."
"Thatʼs the idea " Gabrielle said with a nod.
"And I feel compelled to remind you that weʼre international criminals " he finished but Kat was already smiling.
"Donʼt worry Simon. Itʼs not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the
Henley. ~ Ally Carter

Belief is not always easy.
It is equal parts doubt and astonishment and gratitude and confusion. And then you see how deeply colored the sky is, how the grass is so sharply fragrant, how the fields are a dazzling gold, and you have to step back and breathe in this wild fabulous world. We live in the space of abundant questions and inadequate answers. How else can we live? ~ Elissa Elliott