In my life, I had come to realize that, when things were going very well, indeed, it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful “break” was apt to lurk just around the corner.
Amelia Earhart

Anaïs Nin
What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole of life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, and empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Brooke Medicine Eagle
Ancient teachings call us to turn primary attention to the Sacred Web of Life, of which we are part and with which we are so obviously entangled. This quality of attention - paying attention to the whole - is called among my people ‘holiness’.

Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.
Hillary Clinton

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn’t make sense not to use both.

Jeanette Rankin

Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?

You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.
Katie Couric

There’s no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it’d be rather boring.
Lorraine Heath

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.

Michelle Obama

Marie Curie
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Invite people into your life that don’t look or think like you.
Mellody Hobson

Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails.

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Mary Oliver

Maya Angelou
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.

Every storm runs out of rain.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Oprah Winfrey

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

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