Tunde Oyeneyin Quotes

Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.

To build endurance, you have to endure.

A goal is a wish, but a standard holds you accountable.

If you want to change things, you have to change things.

Tunde, life comes in seasons,” she told me. “Everything shifts and changes. I try to get the most out of the season that I’m in, because I know I’ll never get it back.

Your mind is your strongest muscle. It holds the key to your belief about the way you feel and the way you see yourself.

So much of the pain I’ve experienced in my life has been tied to love. To love is to accept pain, to take it in, to grow from it, and to love again.

The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Knowing what’s next keeps you knowing only what you know. Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.

Whatever it is that makes you want to hide, you have two choices—learn to love it or change it.

It didn’t occur to me that I could learn on the job, that everyone has to start somewhere, and that I could be hired because of my potential, not because of my experience.

It's always easier once you get to the destination to forget about the hills and winding roads you had to take to get there, but I knew that there was a lot of doubt and desire and hope all mixed together on the way.

When you leave a relationship at the right time, you can still cherish the good parts, but when you let it go on for too long, all that you're left with are the messy parts. It was difficult to remember the joy that we once had.

This is a season to acknowledge your value, your uniqueness. This is a season to see yourself fully for who you are. Be your own inspiration and then spark the light for others. Find your voice, trust your gut, and speak because we are all listening.

When I look back at the biggest shifts in my life, doubt was always there. Think about the times when there was a big shift in your life. I’m going to guess you felt the same. Uncertainty, I’ve come to learn, has to exist to give you room to shift. To make room for opportunity to walk in the door.

it is love that enables this mutual generosity of spirit; we have to nurture our

My character is richer and more powerful as a result of the choices I made in my most difficult hour. You can let your past dictate your story, or you can pull from it to create something new. Resilience is the process of adapting in the face of adversity, trauma, or tragedy.

You attract the energy that you are".

When you leave a relationship at the right time, you can still cherish the good parts. But when you let it go on for too long, all that you’re left with are the messy parts”.

You have to be open to taking any direction, or else when you’re thrown off course you won’t find the detour that helps you get back on track. The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to plan. If it looks I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist.

My black skin is illuminated by the sun and it beams in the dark. My black skin does not shift and it does not alter. My black skin is my essence and it makes me myself.

We all have a body. It’s the first thing that belongs to us. It’s where we live and how we move through the world, and our experience within it guides us into the different paths we take as we grow. When we transform it, it transforms us.

life comes in seasons,” she told me. “Everything shifts and changes. I try to get the most out of the season that I’m in, because I know I’ll never get it back.

In Yoruba culture, they believe that the souls of our ancestors are reincarnated as new children in the same family. The youngest of Tosin’s kids, Tony, grew up in my mother’s arms. If someone tried to come between him and my mother, he’d nudge his little body between them. My mother never said that she saw Tope in Tony, but I know she found comfort in loving another little boy and holding him close.