It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile..

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story..

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody..

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection..

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. U….

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself..

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward..

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life..

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God..

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win..

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that eve….

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me..

Believe in yourself when nobody else does..

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it..

We are all just a work in progress..

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader..

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside..

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short..

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong..

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me..

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them..