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Daniel Beaty Quotes

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.

Daniel Beaty
Pain, Believe, Purpose
Source: www.pbs.org

Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.

Daniel Beaty
Thinking, Watches, Action
Source: www.pbs.org

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

Daniel Beaty
Past, Overcoming, Way
Daniel Beaty (2014). “Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential”, p.69, Penguin

Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.

Daniel Beaty
World, Entertainment, Force
Source: www.pbs.org

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

Daniel Beaty
Children, Mind, Teach
Source: www.pbs.org

Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.

Daniel Beaty
Girl, Daughter, Father

Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.

Daniel Beaty
Second Chance, People, Chance
Source: lasentinel.net

I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.

Daniel Beaty
Believe, Healing, Social Transformation
Source: www.pbs.org

My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.

Daniel Beaty
Brother, Father, Journey
Source: lasentinel.net

We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.

Daniel Beaty
Men, Broken, Action
Source: lasentinel.net

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