I was homeless and I was in ...

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
 Jewel

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It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.
 Victoria Pendleton
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
 Diane Arbus
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.
To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.