You could actually work super hard, and give everything you have and lose, it was the best message for me, the reality is sometimes you lose, and you’re never too good to lose, you’re never too big to lose, you’re never too smart to lose, it happens, and it happens when it needs to happen, and you have to embrace those things.
Adele’s acceptance speech after winning Album of the Year at the 59th Grammy Awards
Having the power to make every final decision and being accountable for them is definitely a burden and a blessing. To me, power is making things happen without asking for permission. It’s affecting the way people perceive themselves and the world around them.
A bit of self-revelation about what life may have been like, if she hadn’t been born beautiful: “To be honest, I feel people would have acknowledged my talent a lot more.”
-Beyoncé // People Magazine, World’s Most Beautiful Issue (2006)
If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow. (x)