Worthy Quotes

“My belief is that every woman is worthy, a walking treasure, and deserves to live her life as the heroine of her own story.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they are lost forever.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming. —ALICE WALKER”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“But how can we understand a significant other’s perspective if: (a) we don’t have the experience, maturity, or desire to identify differences; and (b) we lack the ability to recognize there is no right or wrong (except in situations where abuse is evident)? Often, with the inevitable misunderstandings and even heartbreaks that come along with most serious relationships, we forget that our opinions, priorities, and needs aren’t better than our partner’s, they are just different.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“I’m willing to let go of whatever is gripping my heart and mind, and whatever is blocking my kindness and compassion.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Nobody gets out of life alive.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“When I go in search of the origins of my broken heart, it is this sense of not being a priority to the two people who gave me life that creates a fracture in my feeling of worth.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“As adults, we no longer have to do that. When we allow the little one”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“When we look back at our journey, we discover the choices we made that shaped the life we are living. We often forget that although many aspects of life are out of our control, our power of choice is not one of them. Behind the many choices we make (unconsciously or consciously) are wounds that can blind us to how we abandon love and kindness, sometimes taking us and others into shadowy tailspins. Unfortunately, when we are immersed in environments full of shadow, it can take a long while to unteach ourselves the methods learned there. But it’s okay. We can make different choices with better outcomes. We can have remorse and we can atone—without forgetting that sometimes we have to live who we’re not in order to know who we are.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“within to heal and understand that we are enough to take care of ourselves, we no longer have to demand and be blameful when others can’t care for us. We realize, through self-care, that we are enough to love ourselves thoroughly.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. —STEVE MARTIN”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“As I saunter in with my new extended rattail down to my butt crack, I immediately catch eyes with a new dude across the room who is engaged in a very energetic conversation with one of our classmates. He’s wearing a thick old-school alpaca”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“sweater and jeans. He has beautiful brown skin with big brown eyes, heavy eyebrows, and a tiny peanut head. The minute I turn and notice him, he’s already staring at me. Me catching his eyes gives him the gumption to walk across the room and come right to me. Boldly, he smiles a big”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“ole smile, showing off his big ole teeth, and puts out his hand to shake mine. “Hi,” he says, “I’m Tupac.” I am struck by the power of that unusual name. Tupac.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“No matter how hard it might get. The only way out is the way through.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Part of staying safe was hiding my feminine nature and taking on a more masculine bravado in how I carried myself.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“You are so much more than your trauma.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“This was real life, brutal and unfair.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“It’s not about NOT being scared when you need to move past fear. It’s about finding the courage to freaking do it anyway, even if you don’t think you can.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look ‘cleaned up and combed’ on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“A Queen is her own savior. Her magic is quiet, potent and mysterious.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“We all have traumas in our childhood that can make us overlook the beauty that surrounds us. Oftentimes we believe we have to focus more on the negative events because they created so much pain. Some of us believe holding on to the negative is what protects us from not experiencing that pain again. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Unfortunately, we tend to relive aspects of the negative experiences because we stay stuck, by consciously or unconsciously holding on to the negative thoughts our painful experiences birthed.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“My belief is that every woman is worthy, a walking treasure, and deserves to live her life as the heroine”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“There is no such thing as an overnight success. Everybody who grabs the spotlight probably looks like an overnight success 'cause you ain't know 'em before they got on the scene. Behind each one of those stories is someone who was willing to suffer setbacks and put in the hard work, hoping for a little sprinkle of luck.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“For two decades, I had been putting on a good face, going with the flow, telling everyone I was okay. Yet underneath, bouts of depression and overwhelming hopelessness had smoldered until they turned into raging hellfire in my”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“I would later be diagnosed and informed that I suffer from complex trauma with PTSD and dissociation,”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“On paper,” it all looked grand—I had the beautiful family, the superstar husband, the lavish lifestyle, fame and fortune.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“The sweetest part was my kids—Jaden, Willow, and my bonus son, Trey—my three favorite people in the world. They were, hands down, the best thing that ever happened to me.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“Suicidal thoughts were not completely new to me. What was new: I’d begun to think about how to have a fatal accident that wouldn’t look intentional—for the sake of my kids.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy

“If I remained the way I was, what good would I be to them anyway? Besides, I told myself, they would be okay. They would have their father, a devoted and great dad. Their being okay, in my mind, depended on me”
― Jada Pinkett Smith, Worthy