Torri Carter

“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”
― Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil Getting Real: Lessons in Life, Marriage and Family

“When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.”
― Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil Getting Real: Lessons in Life, Marriage and Family

“March 12 ACCEPTANCE/MISTAKES/AMENDS Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest. —Isak Dinesen One of the ways that I can reclaim my power and my person is to admit my mistakes. Sometimes it is helpful to sit down and make a list of people that I have wronged (including myself) and to make amends to those with whom it is possible and where it would not harm them to do so. What a clean feeling it is to accept and own my life and not beat myself up for the mistakes I have made! How good it feels to let those I have harmed know that I am aware of what I have done and that I genuinely wish to own and change my behavior, and do what I can to live”
― Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much - Revised Edition: A Daily Dose of Empowerment, Inspiration, and Relief from the Whirlwind of Modern Life, Featuring Uplifting Quotes from Renowned Women