Tunde Oyeneyin Books & Quotes

“Every time I had a test or a public-speaking project or an interview, my mother said the same prayer for me: ‘May whatever Yetunde says be the right thing to say.’ There was freedom in that prayer, because even a mistake would be right. There would be some reason for it. It taught me to trust myself, so as I stood in front of that room, I started talking. The right words just poured through me. I knew what I was saying, but I wasn’t in control of it.”

Freedom Prayer Trust

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“When you invest deep love in anyone, you risk great heartbreak.”

Love Heartbreak

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“There was such beauty, even in heartbreak, because of how much the love mattered. 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.”

Love Beauty Heartbreak

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“We can’t let fear of what isn’t disrupt what already is. Because with the risk of heartbreak is the greatest reward.”

Fear Heartbreak Reward

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“That stress had felt so real, the choices so monumental. But ultimately, it was all opportunity. The chance had fallen into my lap, any outcome would have been okay.”

Opportunity Change Stress Outcome

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“The best way to change was to make changes.”

Change

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“Once you put yourself on the sale rack, it’s hard to go back to full price.”

Value Sale

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“My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle.”

Mind Muscle

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“The pain of saying nothing was worse than the pain of saying the wrong thing.”

Pain Speaking

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“We’d known for days that this was the end, but it was still difficult to accept that there as no miracle coming in the final hour.”

Acceptance Miracle End

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“When I have wins or moments to celebrate I know what my parents would say, probably word for word, but just knowing what they would say doesn’t make up for them not being here to say it themselves.”

Speak Parents Wins

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“The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to the plan. If it looks like I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens to me as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist. I imagine that failure is something we tell ourselves exists so we can quit. It’s an excuse to give up, to say ‘Oh, this did not work. I’m done.’ It creates a limit on what we think we can achieve. Just for a minute, think about what it would be like if we lived in a world where we had no option but to keep trying. If you know you could never fail, you would never stop trying. You wouldn’t have an out. There would be no end line to fantasize about. What if everything we think we’re not capable of is an illusion? Then the plan would always be to keep going. There would be so much more space for opportunity. What possibilities would that space invite in?”

Failure Oppportunity

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“When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.”

Failure Skills Limitless Expertise

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“We have so many hopes and goals and to-dos on the path to accomplishing our dreams that we lose perspective on how far we’ve come.”

Hope Dreams Perspective Goals

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“We may think we’re self-aware- who could know us better?- but sometimes we can’t see (or smell) ourselves as clearly as the people around us. Think about that- the moments where you can’t see what everyone else is seeing about you. You can’t see yourself because you’re too close to yourself.”

See Self Aware

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