“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“Fear teaches you to be cautious, careful, and conscientious. It also forces you to be creative, compassionate, and calculating.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can’t come back, because caged lions don’t mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“When you’re in trouble, God will reach into the mess and pull you out.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“The value of your Creator should cause you to reconsider your own worth and value.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.”
                            
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“The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.” 
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, “Things that are covered don’t heal well.” Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“Gossip is hater activity. So is listening to gossip, which you can cut short by interrupting the gossiper with “I don’t need to know” and steering the conversation to another subject. Seek your destiny, and do not worry about others. Only God knows the full story of everyone’s destiny; you don’t, so you’re not equipped to judge. If you find yourself rooting against anyone’s success, I encourage you to focus on yourself, what you do best, and march to your own destiny. Do not let yourself become a hater.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
             
                
                
                
            
         
                                
                            
                                
“Ultimately everything God has ever said will come to pass. When we suffer loss like Eve did, we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.”
                            
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                                T.D. Jakes