Cardi B

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

I wanna hear myself everywhere

I’m bout this shmoney!

The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

This is no dress rehearsal.