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"It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it."
---- Alice Walker
"The quietly pacifist peaceful
always die
to make room for men
who shout."
---- Alice Walker
"The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. and they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them."
---- Mother Teresa
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
---- Mother Teresa
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
---- Rosa Parks
"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
---- Sandra Day O' Connor
"Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains."
---- Bell Hooks
"If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege."
---- Bell Hooks
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
---- Indira Gandhi
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
---- Dorothy Day
"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
---- Dorothy Day
"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."
---- Dorothy Day
"People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time."
---- Dorothy Day
"The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
---- Hillary Rodham Clinton
"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future."
---- Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."
---- Barbara Bush
"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
---- Rita Mae Brown
"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both."
---- Alice Stone Blackwell
"My concern has always been for the people who are victimized, unable to speak for themselves and who need outside help."
---- Joan Baez
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
---- Susan B. Anthony
"Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy."
---- Corazon Aquino
"As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it."
---- Corazon Aquino
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
---- Corazon Aquino
"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."
---- Corazon Aquino
"We know that all our work upon this planet is not going to be done in our
lifetimes, but if we do what we came to do, our children will carry it through their own living."
---- Audrey Lorde
"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
---- Audrey Lorde
"Ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinangalingan, ay hindi makakarating sa kanyang pupuntahan." (English translation: The person who does not know how to look back from where they came from, will not be able to reach their destination."
---- Filipino proverb
the key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward being significant -- and the success will naturally follow.
---- Wintley Phipps
"May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people so that you will work for justice, equality and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you will reach out your hand to comfort them and change their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do the things which others tell you cannot be done."
---- Author Unknown
"There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we
face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education,
organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its
perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of
commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment,
despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a
brighter future"
---- Noam Chomsky
"There are only two ways of spreading light -
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
---- Edith Wharton
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
---- The Book of Proverbs
"
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
---- Chinese Proverb
"Ignorance and evil is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
---- Shakti Gawain
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
---- Stephen Grellet
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
---- Chinese Proverb
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
---- Leo Buscaglia
"
From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life."
---- Arthur Ashe
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree."
---- Martin Luther
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
---- Buddha
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up."
---- Rev. Jesse Jackson
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."
---- Edward Everett Hale
"The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out fear, and
they are the arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they
get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you
put something good into the world, something good comes back to
you."
---- Merle Shain
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in
order; to put the nation in order, we must first put our family in
order; to put our family in order, we must first cultivate our
personal life; we must first set our hearts right before anything
else."
---- Confucius
"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love."
---- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
---- Abbie Hoffman
"Freedom does not come from outer circumstances but from inner liberation. Find your soul, unite with it, let it govern your life and you will be free."
---- Author Unknown
ãThe love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.ä
---- William Hazlitt
ãThe place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head, and hands. ä
---- Robert M. Pirsig
ãEach of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift. Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all-- not all. It is through the finding and the giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light. ä
---- Helen Luke
"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
---- Gloria Steinem
"anger mixed with intelligence and awareness can make for cynical
complacency... or the potential for transformation."
---- Perla Daly, newFilipina.com
"...But where shall I start? The world is so vast. I shall start
with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so large. I had
better start with my town. But my town, too is large. I had best start
with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I SHALL START
WITH MYSELF."
---- E. Wiesel
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed,
it's the only thing that ever has."
---- Margaret Mead, in The Utne Reader (1992)
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room."
---- Lorraine Teel, in the Minnesota Women's Press (1996)
"The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being
honest all the time."
---- Tom Hanks
"The tragedy of our time is not that we are so eye centered, so
appearance besotted. The tragedy is that we do not know what we like until
we are told by our advertisers and entertainers."
---- Jessamyn West, Love Is Not What You Think (1959)
"I think I'm a bit better looking than she is."
---- Princess Anne, being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne
"Women looked like great sea snails---the corded wood, babies, and
laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs."
---- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976)
"She looked like a woman who was being sent to a mental institution,
but did not know it."
---- Edna O'Brien, "Cords," The Love Object (1968)
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
---- Maya Angelou, "In Loneliness"
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate a taste.
---- Nikki Giovanni, with Margaret Walker, A Poetic Equation (1974)
Root out timidity by daring.
---- Maya Angelou
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
---- Maya Angelou
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
---- Maya Angelou
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
---- Mark Twain
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
---- Anais Nin
FEMINISM (See WOMANISM)
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
---- Alice Walker
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no one is useless while they have a friend."
---- Robert Louis Stevenson
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
---- George MacDonald
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
---- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
"Ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinangalingan, ay hindi makakarating sa kanyang pupuntahan." (English translation: The person who does not know how to look back from where they came from, will not be able to reach their destination."
---- Filipino proverb
ã We must adjust to
changing times and still
hold to unchanging
principles. ä
---- Jimmy Carter
ã We must adjust to
changing times and still
hold to unchanging
principles. ä
---- Jimmy Carter
It's the most unhappy people who fear change.
---- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook(1966)
The best thing about the futre is that it only comes one day at a time.
---- Abraham Lincoln
If you are doing something you would do for nothing then you are on your way to salvation. And if you could drop it in a minute and forget the outcome, you are even furher along. And if while you are doing it you are transported into another existence, there is no need for you to worry about the future.
---- George Sheehan
The only people who should be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
---- Anna Quindlen, "No There There," Thinking Out Loud (1993)
The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.
---- Corazon Aquino, in Isabelo T. Crisostomo, Cory (1987)
The problem with
historians who have ignored
women's roles in human
achievments is that they
have forgotten that the
existence of women is the
world's insurance policy as
much as it is men's.
---- BagongPinay
...we go about our daily lives with the assumption that "I" am "in here", while the rest of the world is "out there."...Yet it may very well be that it is this model that lies at the root of much of humanity's problems today.
---- Peter Russel in the Global Brain Awakens, Our Next Evolutionary Leap
History, despite its wrenching pain, / Cannot be unlived, and if faced / With courage, need not be lived again.
---- Maya Angelou, "on the Pulse of Morning," presidential inauguration poem (1993)
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
---- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, "By the Scruff of the Soul," in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1963)
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
---- Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger (1987)
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
---- Clarice Stasz Stoll, Female and Male (1974)
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
---- Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them (1982)
If women, though, had written all those books, / I know that they would read quite differently, / For well do women know the blame is wrong. / The parts are not apportioned equally, / Because the strongest take the largest cut / And he who slices it can keep the best.
---- Christine de Pisan, "Letter of the God of Love" (1399), in Thelma S. Fenster and Mary Carpenter Erler, eds., Poems of Cupid, God of Love (1990)
It is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
---- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.
---- Baha'u'llah
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
---- Maya Angelou
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? And which does the most mischief Heaven only knows. If people can say, "Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm," they think it is all right.
---- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1877)
There is nothing more powerful than ignorance, not even intelligence.
---- Lillian Smith, The Journey (1954)
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all things that make for unhappiness.
---- Winifred Holtby, "The Right Side of Thirty" (1930), Pavements at Anderby (1937)
The bliss that comes from ignorance should be seldom encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.
---- Ruth Stout, How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back (1955)
Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time.
---- Anthony Gilbert, The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball (1943)
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
---- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963)
The most destructive decision that an individual can make is to give away his or her decision-making authority.
---- Philosopher/Physicist Peter Russell in "The Third Millenium"
---- Carolyn Rodgers, "Food for Thought," (1975)
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
---- Florynce R. Kennedy, in Gloria Steinem, "The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy," Ms. (1973)
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
---- Maya Angelou
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
I dream of an eagle, I give birth to a hummingbird.
---- Edith Wharton, quoted by Jane Yolen in Jim Roginski, Behind the Covers (1985)
Here we are sitting in a shower of gold and nothing to hold up but a pitchfork!
---- Christina Stead, House of All Nations (1938)
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
---- Maya Angelou
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
---- Seneca, Roman Philosopher
ãBy the accident of fortune
a man may rule the world for a time,
but by virtue of love and kindness
he may rule the world forever.ä
---- Lao-Tse
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
---- Aesop
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
---- Hebrews 13:2
ãYou cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.ä
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
---- Stephen Grellet
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
---- Leo Buscaglia
ã I have found that among
its other benefits, giving
liberates the soul of the
giver...
When we cast our bread
upon the waters, we can
presume that someone
downstream whose face we
will never know will benefit
from our action, as we who
are downstream from
another will profit from that
grantor's gift...
When we give cheerfully and
accept gratefully, everyone is
blessed. ä
---- Maya Angelou
If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
---- ?
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
---- Maya Angelou
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
---- Maya Angelou
ãOur ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel, and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.ä
---- Anna Quindlen
"Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you."
---- John McCain
"Persistence trumps talents and looks every time."
---- Aaron Brown
"A leader takes people where they want to go. But a great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but where they ought to be."
---- Rosalynn Carter
"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
---- Michael Jordan
"Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it."
---- Tony Wheeler
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of
hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish
yourself if you forget the errand."
---- Woodrow Wilson
"There are 3 choices: you can either give up, give in, or give it your all!"
---- Anon
"Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, or what's a Heaven for?"
---- Robert Browning
"All splendid things are rare."
---- Cicero
"Don't go into something to test the waters, go into things to make waves."
---- Anon
"Insist upon yourself. Never imitate."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you wish to drown,
do not torture yourself with shallow water."
---- Bulgarian Proverb
"He who knows himself,
knows his Lord."
---- Sufi saying
"Responsibility means
not blaming anyone or anything for your situation,
including yourself."
---- Rainer Maria Rilke
"If I don't manage to fly, someone else will.
The Spirit wants only that there be flying.
As to who happens to do it,
She has only a passing interest."
---- Rainer Maria Rilke
"We are so powerful that we can convince ourselves
that indeed we are not -- then make it come true."
---- Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know
that faith is his twin brother."
---- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
"Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
---- Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)
"We are meant to ride nature's waves,
not to fight against them."
---- Deepak Chopra
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth:
The only way to help yourself is to help others."
---- Author Unknown
"Give to the world the best you have,
and the best will come back to you!"
---- Author Unknown
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow - It empties today of its strength."
---- Author Unknown
"Everyone wants to find happiness in life.
But not everyone knows how to be happy.
What is happiness? How do we define it?
Where do we find it? How do we hang on to it?
Hopefully this quote will remind us that it truly is
"the simple things" that matter the most.
The grand essentials of happiness are:
Something to do,
Something to love, and
Something to hope for.
I think we all possess these three building blocks of happines --
so let's put them to work to make better lives for ourselves and others!
Wishing you happiness."
---- Author Unknown
"If you wait until conditions are perfect
before you act, you'll never act."
---- Author Unknown
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so."
---- Author Unknown
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how
infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things
that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
---- Author Unknown
"Don't burn bridges.
You'll be surprised how many
times you have to cross the same river."
---- Author Unknown
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
---- Author Unknown
"Memories of shame, guilt, rejection, hatred, resentment,
and other unloving feelings cannot be converted to love.
These images are what they are.
Accept them and move to a higher sense of Self,
which is unconnected with memory."
---- Deepak Chopra
"Some there are that torment themselves afresh
with the memory of what is past;
others, again, afflict themselves
with the apprehension of evils to come;
and very ridiculously both-
for the one does not now concern us,
and the other is not yet...
One should count each day a separate life."
---- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
"A Genius: To know without having learned;
to draw just conclusions from unknown premises;
to discern the soul of things."
---- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
"The measure of a man's real character
is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
---- Macaulay (1800-1859)
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through
you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this
expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other
medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to
determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with
other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and
directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in
yourself or your work. You have to keep directly open to and aware of the
urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There
is no satisfaction at any time. There is only a divine
dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more
alive than the others."
---- Martha Graham
"What we believe is based on our perceptions.
What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think.
What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality."
---- Zukav
"God has delivered yourself to your care, and says:
I had no one fitter to trust than you."
---- Epictetus
"Learn to get in touch with the
silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has purpose."
---- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Every man is his own ancestor,
and every man is his own heir.
He devises his own future,
and he inherits his own past."
---- Frederick Henry Hedge
"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."
---- Dennis Weaver
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of God."
---- Emerson
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
---- Emerson
"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him,
that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life
if aroused and put into action."
---- Orison Swett Marden
"The ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
---- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whatever you are from nature, keep to it;
never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing."
---- Sydney Smith
"Intense love does not measure; it just gives."
---- Mother Teresa
"Be willing to be uncomfortable.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
It may get tough,
but it's a small price to pay for living a dream."
---- Peter McWilliams
"In deep silence we return to the ultimate cause, pure being. There you come face to face with the womb of creation,
the source of all that was, is or will be,
which is simply - yourself."
---- Deepak Chopra
"Your life is conditioned by your own thoughts;
not by the thoughts of anyone else."
---- Emmet Fox
"Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes
when you desire a higher life.
So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow."
---- Deepak Chopra
"You are what your deep driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny."
---- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
"You are a rich and creative spiritual being. You can never be less than this. You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure., and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe."
---- Eric Butterworth
"Not to be cheered by praise,
not to be grieved by blame,
but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."
---- Saskya Pandita
"As you believe, so you become.
As you become, so you believe."
---- Author Unknown
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
---- James Oppenheim
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
---- William Blake
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
---- Goethe
"The Footpath to Peace: To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars, To be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them, To despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice, To be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts, To covet nothing that is your neighbors except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners, To think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ, And to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors,
These are little guideposts on the footpath to peace."
---- Henry Van Dyke
"I believe in growing things, and in the things which have grown and died magnificently. I believe in people and in the simple aspects of human life, and in the relation of man to nature. I believe mans must be free, both in spirit and society, that he must build strength into himself, affirming the enormous beauty of the world and acquiring the confidence to see and to express his vision."
---- Ansel Adams
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. "
---- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you've imagined."
---- Henry David Thoreau
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
---- B. C. Forbes
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
---- Margaret Thatcher
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
---- Ellen Hubbard
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
---- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
---- Albert Einstein
ã"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
---- Emily Dickinson
ãWe either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
---- Carlos Castaneda
ãObstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
---- Leonardo da Vinci
ãCharacter may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
---- Phillip Brooks
ãDance, as though no one is watching you.
Love, as though you have never been hurt before. Sing, as though no one can hear you. Live, as though heaven is here on earth."
---- Author Unknown
ãMay the stars carry your sadness away,
may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears, and, above all, may silence make you strong."
---- Chief Dan George
ãDon't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
---- Harold Whitman
ãPersons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.ä
---- Nathaniel Branden
ãWith courage and pride we face our day, for each new day can bring a new beginning, hold your head up high, and know that tomorrow can be a new day.ä
---- Ellen Flickner
ãEvery morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.ä
---- Dan Custer
"Go to the truth beyond the mind.
Love is the bridge."
---- Stephen Levine
"I wasnât afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure."
---- Anne Baxter
"Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try."
---- Mary Kay Ash
"Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek."
---- English Proverb
"Learn to listen.
Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly."
---- Frank Tyger
"Little things affect little minds."
---- Benjamin Disraeli
"Speak when you're angry,
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
---- Lawrence J. Peter
"The Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity."
---- Albert Einstein
"It is as hard to see one's self
as to look backwards without turning around."
---- Thoreau
"It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
---- Ursula K. Le Guin
"Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, SIMPLIFY."
---- Thoreau
"Vision: the art of seeing things invisible."
---- Jonathan Swift
"And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
---- Grandma Moses
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
---- Moliere
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
---- Anonymous
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
---- Mahatma Gandhi
"Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
---- Michael Jordan
"The meaning of things lies not
in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them."
---- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Our real blessings often appear to us
in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments;
but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
---- Joseph Addison
"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world."
---- Adlai Stevenson, about Eleanor Roosevelt
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"And while some angels have abandoned their wings,
my voice, not so much indigo, not so much new,
is something different. ...And my wish, no longer suspended,
finally comes home."
---- Nellie Wong
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
---- Alice Walker
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
---- Alice Walker
"It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it."
---- Alice Walker
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."
---- Mother Teresa
"The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. and they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them."
---- Mother Teresa
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."
---- Mother Teresa
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
---- Mother Teresa
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
---- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
---- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
---- Gloria Steinem
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing, until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. They then act and do things accordingly."
---- Zora Neale Hurston
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get ÷ only what you are expecting to give ÷ which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
---- Katherine Hepburn
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
---- Indira Gandhi
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
---- Emily Dickinson
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
---- Emily Dickinson
"The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
---- Emily Dickinson
"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships;
Asking for what you want and need from others;
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension;
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values;
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
---- Barbara De Angelis
"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
---- Dorothy Day
"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."
---- Dorothy Day
"People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time."
---- Dorothy Day
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
---- Marie Curie
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
---- Marie Curie
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent."
---- Barbara Bush
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
---- Barbara Bush
"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
---- Barbara Bush
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."
---- Barbara Bush
"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."
---- Barbara Bush
"I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss."
---- Rita Mae Brown
"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
---- Rita Mae Brown
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
---- Anne Bradstreet
"We, too, the children of the earth, have our moon phases all through any year; the darkness, the delivery from darkness, the waxing and waning."
---- Faith Baldwin
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."
---- Faith Baldwin
"To love means you also trust."
---- Joan Baez
"Many argue; not many converse."
---- Louisa May Alcott
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
---- Louisa May Alcott
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
---- Louisa May Alcott
"I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
---- Pearl S. Buck
"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
---- Gwendolyn Brooks
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
---- Corazon Aquino
"One must be frank to be relevant."
---- Corazon Aquino
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
---- Maya Angelou
"Alone, all alone.
Nobody, but nobody.
Can make it out here alone."
---- Maya Angelou
"The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry."
---- Maya Angelou
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
---- Serenity Prayer
"You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever,
live like you're going to die tomorrow, and love like it's never going
to hurt."
---- M. Grifsters
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
---- Marianne Williamson
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
---- Ambrose Redmoon
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move."
---- Matthew 17:20
ãIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.ä
---- Seneca
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
---- Mark Twain
"I am not the same,
having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world."
---- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
"When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
---- Joseph Campbell
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes
on."
---- Robert Frost
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots.
The other is wings."
---- Hodding Carter, Jr.
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart."
---- Anne Frank
"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
---- E. KŸbler-Ross
"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"
---- Marcel Marceau
[about the past]
"...The way I see it,
you can either run from it,
or learn from it."
---- Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King
"Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time."
---- Marion Wright Edelman
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
---- Antoine de Saint-ExupŽry
"Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God."
---- Leo Buscaglia
"Have a life much bigger than your work. Because if your life's main
focus is your work and you lose that part of you, you feel lost. If your
life is bigger than your work, then you won't fall apart. Cultivate meaningful
relationships and friendships, take care of your family, take care of
yourself, take care of your spirit, go with your passions, and learn who
you are and what you are here for. Finally, you are living life."
---- Anonymous
"Forgiveness is what you do for yourself, not for other people."
---- Dr. Phil McGraw, life strategist/psychologist
"Every choice you make ÷ including the thoughts you think ÷ has consequences. When you choose the behavior or thought, you choose the consequences. If you choose to stay with a destructive partner, then you choose the consequences of pain and suffering. If you choose thoughts contaminated with anger and bitterness, then you will create an experience of alienation and hostility. When you start choosing the right behavior and thoughts ÷ which will take a lot of discipline ÷ you'll get the right consequences."
---- Dr. Phil McGraw, life strategist/psychologist
"Remember that you teach people how they treat you."
---- Dr. Phil McGraw, life strategist/psychologist
"You can't change what you don't acknowledge. So get real about your situation. Until you understand and accept that, you won't be able to begin the healing process."
---- Dr. Phil McGraw, life strategist/psychologist
"Your most important relationship is the one with yourself."
---- Dr. Phil McGraw, life strategist/psychologist
"We know that all our work upon this planet is not going to be done in our
lifetimes, but if we do what we came to do, our children will carry it through their own living."
---- Audrey Lorde
"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
---- Audrey Lorde
"Ang taong hindi marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinangalingan, ay hindi makakarating sa kanyang pupuntahan." (English translation: The person who does not know how to look back from where they came from, will not be able to reach their destination."
---- Filipino proverb
"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."
---- George Santayana
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
---- Mohandas Gandhi
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
---- Mark Twain
"All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."
---- Confucius
"Donât try to be somebody else. Be positive, be who you are. Find your spiritual self, set your goals, and reach for that star."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"If you focus on what you have, you will end up with more. Believe me, this one is a known fact, You will never have enough, if you focus on what you lack."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"I don't think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"I know why the caged bird sings."
---- Maya Angelou
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
---- Maya Angelou
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
---- Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
---- Maya Angelou
"At fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
---- Maya Angelou
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
---- Dawna Markova
ãO Lord, help me to understand that You ain't going to let nothing come my way that You and me together can't handle.ä
---- Anonymous boy from Africa
ãSometimes I go about pitying myself
And all the while
I am being carried across the sky
By beautiful clouds.ä
---- Ojibway Indian expression
"Hold on to what is good,
even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if I've gone away from you."
---- Pueblo Indian Prayer
"So I'll sit here now and I'll pray to You
('though I can't really say why),
as the walls collapse around me
and my loved ones suffer and die,
and my health gives way and bills pile up
and time slips too quickly past,
as I count all the joys life's denied me,
and those that didn't last.
I'll offer You thanks, my Creator,
for the gifts You've yet to repeal;
for walking and vision and laughter,
for music, and dreams that seem real,
for people who love me and seasons that change,
for my body's own memories of love,
and I'll sit here and pray in the darkness,
for all the good it does."
---- Veronica A. Shoffstall
"May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people so that you will work for justice, equality and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you will reach out your hand to comfort them and change their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do the things which others tell you cannot be done."
---- Author Unknown
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
---- Cherokee expression
(About life and death) "I wanted a perfect ending...
Now, I've learned the hard way that some poems
don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear
beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing,
having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity."
---- Gilda Radner, 1946-1989
(About life and death) "When I die if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give me.
I want to leave you something
Something better than words or sounds.
Look for me in the people I've known or loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind.
You can love me most by letting hands touch hands
By letting bodies touch bodies
And by letting go of children that need to be free.
Love doesn't die, people do
So when all that's left of me is love
Give me away."
---- Merritt Malloy
(About life and death) ãI look at life as a gift of God.
Now that he wants it back
I have no right to complain.ä
---- Joyce Cary
(About life and death) ãIf we have been pleased with life,
we should not be displeased with death,
since it comes from the hand
of the same master.ä
---- Michelangelo
(About life and death)ãDeath is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well."
---- Henry Scott Holland
"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."
---- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft."
---- Marie Stilkind
"How simple it is to see
that all the worry in the world
cannot control the future.
How simple it is to see
that we can only be happy now.
And that there will never be a time
when it is not now."
---- Gerald Jampolsky
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
---- Harold Whitman
"For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, an enemy is indispensable. So we should be grateful for our enemies and critics, for it is they who can best help us develop a tranquil mind and a loving heart."
---- Dalai Lama
"It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion."
---- Dalai Lama
"Indulgence on resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in the lives to come."
---- Dalai Lama
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless
swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the
life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road
and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists,
it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
---- Ayn Rand
"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
---- Montaigne
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
---- Mark Twain
"There are only two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it."
---- Edith Wharton
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
---- Disraeli
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as true strength."
---- Ralph Sockman
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
---- Buddha
"Peace comes from living a measurable life. Peace comes from
attending to every part of the world in a sacramental way. My
relationship and my family is not what I do when I have time left
over from work. Reading is not what I do when life calms down.
Prayer is not something I do when I feel like it or when I need
something. These are all channels of hope and growth for me. They
must all be given their due."
---- Joan Chittister
"The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out fear, and
they are the arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they
get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you
put something good into the world, something good comes back to
you."
---- Merle Shain
"Hatred can be overcome only by love."
---- Mahatma Gandhi
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in
order; to put the nation in order, we must first put our family in
order; to put our family in order, we must first cultivate our
personal life; we must first set our hearts right before anything
else."
---- Confucius
"Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationships: it means
being present with love÷for ourselves and for all life.
Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter
how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what
we have to give this world and one another."
---- Ram Dass
ãWhen you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ä
---- Peace Pilgrim
When your inner life is a place you have to stay out of, having an identity is impossible. Remembering not to remember fractures you.
---- Lynda Barry, quoted in Time magazine(September 2, 2002 issue)
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
---- Mahatma Gandhi
"The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we
walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine
situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful,
something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world
better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of
discernment."
---- Lewis B. Smedes
"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?
We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.
You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
---- Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
---- Dale E. Turner
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
---- Leo Buscaglia
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
---- Disraeli
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
---- George Washington Carver
"From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life."
---- Arthur Ashe
"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do
good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true
enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and
frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down
by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What
you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People
really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway."
---- Kent M. Keith
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree."
---- Martin Luther
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
---- Moliere
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up."
---- Rev. Jesse Jackson
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
---- Storm Jameson
"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
---- Montaigne
"Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in
somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile."
---- Ron Atchison
"And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils...
Joy is there Everywhere."
---- Rabindranath Tagore
ãIf you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.ä
---- Dalai Lama
"The opposite of love is not hate,
it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy,
it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference.ä
---- Elie Wiesel
"A (wo)man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when she plants shade trees under which she knows full well she will never sit."
---- D. Elton Trueblood
ãAt the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have
received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I
was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in." Hungry
not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing
-- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want
of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.ä
---- Mother Teresa
"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."
---- William Henry Channing
"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"
---- Linda Staten
ãSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.ä
---- Thich Nhat Hanh
"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."
---- R.J. Baughan
ãIf you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.ä
---- Dalai Lama
"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love."
---- Martin Luther King Jr.
ãThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.ä
---- Albert Einstein
"Today I choose to feel life.ä
---- Kevin Aucoin, make-up artist extraordinaire, (2/14/62 - 5/07/02)
ãLay your head upon the seashore,
Lay your head upon the sand,
Listen for the wave within you,
Listen now and understand,
Know the mercy of the water,
Know the safety of the deep,
Find the comfort we're all born with,
Hear the voice that gives you peace."
---- Kevin Aucoin, make-up artist extraordinaire, (2/14/62 - 5/07/02)
"My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and those exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother..."
---- P. S. Buck
ãYou cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first... and everything else follows. ä
---- Osho, Indian philosopher
ãThis is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use, as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.ä
---- Author Unknown
ã A wise person knows what time it is in her own life and in the life of the community. She knows that sensing the "kairos" (the prepared or ripe moment) is more important than conforming to the compulsive rhythm of chronological time. Thus, a wise person is able to give herself gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because she knows that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death, all belong within the completeness of living and fullness of being. ä
---- Sam Keen
ãEach of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift. Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all-- not all. It is through the finding and the giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light. ä
---- Helen Luke
"Learn to become so wrapped up in something that you forget how to be afraid."
---- Lady Bird Johnson
ãBe kind, serve those in need, and give your ego to God.ä
---- Dalai Lama
ã If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ä
---- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, 1929-1968
ãGenerosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. ä
---- Jon Kabat Zin
ã We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations... (We are continuously growing.) ä
---- Anais Nin
ã To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
changing oneself endlessly. ä
---- Henri Bergson
ã Be patient. When you feel
lonely, stay with your
loneliness. Avoid the
temptation to let your fearful
self run off. Let it teach you
its wisdom; let it tell you that
you can live instead of just
surviving. Gradually you will
become one, and you will
find that God is living in
your heart and offering you
all you need. ä
---- Henri J.M. Nouwen
ã My hope, each day as I
grow older, is that this will
never be simply
chronological aging-- which
is a nuisance and frequently
a bore... but that I will also
grow into maturity, where
the experience which can be
acquired only through
chronology will teach me
how to be MORE AWARE,
OPEN, UNAFRAID TO BE
VULNERABLE,
INVOLVED, COMMITTED,
TO ACCEPT
DISAGREEMENT
WITHOUT FEELING
THREATENED... to
understand that I cannot
take myself seriously until I
stop taking myself seriously--
to be, in fact, a true adult. ä
---- Madeleine L'Engle
ã There are times when you
cannot understand why you
cannot do what you want to
do. When God brings the
blank space, see that you DO
NOT fill it in, but rather,
wait... ä
---- Oswald Chambers
ã Speak to me, that I may
hear thee giving me courage
for hard times and strength
for difficult places; giving me
determination for challenging
tasks. I ask of thee no easy
way, but just thy grace that is
sufficient for every need, so
that no matter how hard the
way, how challenging the
hour, how dark the sky, I may
be enabled to overcome...
Amen. ä
---- Peter Marshall
ã I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless, and that
it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to
our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope
I may fulfill it. In the light of the great purpose all our privations
and disappointments are
trivial. ä
---- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ãThis is our purpose:
to make as meaningful as
possible this life that has
been bestowed upon us;
to live in such a way that we
may be proud of ourselves;
to act in such a way that
some part of us lives on. ä
---- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)
ãWe are the hero of our own
story. ä
---- Mary McCarthy
ãSince we cannot change
reality, let us change the
eyes which sees reality. ä
---- N. Kazantzakis
ãThere are only two ways to
live your life. One is though
nothing is a miracle. The
other is though
EVERYTHING is a
miracle.ä
---- Albert Einstein
ã Most of the people I know
who have what I want--which
is to say, purpose, heart,
balance, gratitude, joy-- are
people with a deep sense of
spirituality... They follow a
brighter light than the
glimmer of their own candle,
they are part of something
beautiful. I saw something
once... that said, "A human
life is like a single letter of
the alphabet. It can be
meaningless. Or it can be a
part of a great meaning. ä
---- Anne Lamott
"TODAY is a new day. You
will get out of it just what you
put into it. If you have made
mistakes, even serious
mistakes, there is always
another chance for you. And
supposing you have tried and
failed again and again, you
may have a fresh start any
moment YOU choose, for
this thing that we call
"failure" is not the falling
down, but the staying
down. ä
---- M. Pickford
"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head up high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words, "THIS TOO SHALL PASS." "I will be bigger than you.
---- Ann Landers
ãLiving a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time, I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a mark upon all of my life's decisions and actions. And it does not matter whether this death comes next week or thirty years from now; this consciousness gives my life another breadth. It helps shape the words I speak, the way I love, my politic of action, the strength of my vision and purpose, the depth of my appreciation of living.ä
---- Audre Lorde, "The Cancer Journals"
"It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude, we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared."
---- Henri H.M. Nouwen, Theologian
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
---- Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Letters To A Young Poet"
"Live life. Love life. Living life is love."
---- Joann Natalia Aquino
"What is your purpose, what is your calling? What I know for sure
is if you ask the question, the answer will come. What I know for sure
is, you have to be willing to listen for the answer. You have to get still
enough to learn it and hear it and pay attention, to be fully conscious
enough to see not just with your eyes, but through them to the truth of
who you are and what you can be."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"Listen to the passion of your soul, set the wings of your spirit
free; and let not a single song go unsung."
---- Sylvana Rossetti, Writer
"All you need deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it."
---- Eileen Caddy
"My fate will come to me without searching for it. "ang kapalaran
ko, di ko man hanapin, dudulog, lalapit kung talagang akin."
---- Pilipino Proverb
---- Winston Churchill
"In life, whatever does not kill you will make you stronger."
---- unknown
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
---- unknown
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part
of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and
understand, for all that is life."
---- J. Krishnamurti , Think on These Things
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
---- Tenneva Jordan
ãOur ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel, and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.ä
---- Anna Quindlen
"Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it."
---- Tony Wheeler
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."
---- Mother Teresa
"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
---- Bell Hooks
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get ÷ only what you are expecting to give ÷ which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
---- Katherine Hepburn
"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships;
Asking for what you want and need from others;
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension;
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values;
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
---- Barbara De Angelis
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
---- Dorothy Day
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
---- Louisa May Alcott
"To love means you also trust."
---- Joan Baez
"When you care and shower love to others, straight from your heart, It may not return from those who received, but prosperity in your life shall never part."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out fear, and
they are the arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they
get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you
put something good into the world, something good comes back to
you."
---- Merle Shain
"Hatred can be overcome only by love."
---- Mahatma Gandhi
ãSmile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.ä
---- Mother Teresa
ã Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ä
---- Lao Tzu
"To find your soulmate is not to find that person who will give you romantic satisfaction and happiness, but rather to find that person who uplifts you to higher awareness, that person who helps you let go of materialist attachments"
---- babaylan sa bundok
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels lovable.
---- Jessamyn West, poet and novelist
---- Unknown
"I am nothing special , of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
---- Nicolas Spark , The Notebook
'Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
---- Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Whoever loves true life, wil love true love"
---- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
---- Margaret Anderson
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to beat."
---- Martin Luther King. Jr.
"Love is not enough to make a relationship work-- it takes communication, compatibility, and hard work."
---- Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
"Falling in love is the easy part, but building a healthy relationship takes hard work."
---- Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
"Each true love we have stretches our heart in a different direction, and each relationship serves us in a different way."
---- Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
"It takes just a moment to experience infatuation, but true love takes time."
---- Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
I have met on the street a very poor man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.
---- Victor Hugo
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always toward the other soul, not away from it. Do you think that love is an accomplished thing, the day it is recognized? It isn't. To love, you have to learn to understand the otehr more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures. You musn't think that your desire or your fundamental need is to make a career, or to fill up your life with activity, or even provide for yoour family materially. It isn't. Your most vital necessity in life is that you shall love your life completely and implicitly and in entire nakedness of body and spirit. Then you will have peace and inner security no matter how many things go wrong. And this peace and security will leave you free to act ßand to produce your own work, a real and independent workman.
---- D.H. Lawrence
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
---- Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem"(1971), in Bob Chieger, Was It Good For You, Too? (1983)
Macho does not prove mucho.
---- Zsa-Zsa Gabor, in Judy Allen, Picking on Men (1985)
Men weren't really the enemy---they were fellow victims of suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
---- Betty Friedan, in The Christian Science Monitor (1974)
"Be much pickier. Don't lower your standards just because you're feeling times are tough. You're not a store trying to get rid of old merchandise that puts it on sale --- you are a valuable, lovable human being who deserves to have the kind of relatonship you want, not just the kind you think you can get."
---- Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
Ask your partner questions:
1. Family background and quality of family relationships
2. Past love relationships and reasons for breakups
3. Lessons learned from life experiences.
4. Ethics, values, and morals
5. Attitudes about love, commitment, communication
6. Spiritual or religious philosophy
7. Personal and professional goal
---Barbara de Angelis , Are You the One For Me?
"I never married because there was no need.
I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband.
I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all
afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
---- Marie Corelli
We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other.
---- Marianne Williamson in "A Woman's Worth." 1993
---- -Simone Signoret
Marriage is not a matter of creating a quick community of spirit by tearing down and destroying all boundaries, but rather a good mariage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude . . . Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them no less than one another.
---- Rainer Maria Rilke
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
---- Marya Mannes, Message From a Stranger (1948)
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then
will I hear them from heaven, and forgive their sin, and will heal
their land."
---- 2 Chronicles 7:14
"Peace comes from living a measurable life. Peace comes from
attending to every part of the world in a sacramental way. My
relationship and my family is not what I do when I have time left
over from work. Reading is not what I do when life calms down.
Prayer is not something I do when I feel like it or when I need
something. These are all channels of hope and growth for me. They
must all be given their due."
---- Joan Chittister
ãWhen you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ä
---- Peace Pilgrim
I am always between two worlds, always in conflict. I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, make a final choice, but I can't. Some nameless, undescribable fear and anxiety keeps me on the move. On certain evenings like this I wold liek to feel whole. ßOnly half of me is sitting by the fire. Only my hands are sewing.
---- Anais Nin
The beauty of sex is when mind, body and soul experience it as a whole. Pornography is about sexual experience without thought and feeling.
---- Editor, BagongPinay 2001
Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.
---- Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will (1975)
For many feminists, pornography is the theory and rape is the practice.
---- Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, A Feminist Dictionary (1985)
Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without the feeling.
---- Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic (1978)
Pornography isn't about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression.
---- Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being---while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up.
---- Susan Sontag, "The Pornographic Imagination,", Styles of Radical Will (1966)
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
---- Shana Alexander, Talking Woman (1976)
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful. It's made for losers.
---- Rita Mae Brown, in Ms. (1994)
Success is loving life and daring to live it.
---- Maya Angelou
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
the key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward being significant -- and the success will naturally follow.
---- Wintley Phipps
Because she believes in herself, she doesnât need to convince others,
Because she is content with herself, she doesnât need othersâ approval.
Because she accepts herself, the whole world accepts her.
---- adapted from the Tao te Ching
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
In the process of realizing your true gifts, you will inevitably find both your deepest passions and your greatest sense of power.
---- Caroline Joy Adams
We try so hard to please men... I lost part of myself in men's opinions of me... [but] Never again will I want another person's approval so desperately that I will be willing to give up myself.
---- Shay Youngblood
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
---- Simone Weil (1947)
Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.
---- Rita Rudner
...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your very soul...
---- Walt Whitman
A sense of security comes from within, not from attachment to any person, thing or idea.
---- Cherie Carter-Scott
As you think, you travel. As you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.You cannot escape the result of your thoughts; but you can endure and learn, accept and be glad. You will realize the vision of your heart, not the idle wish. You will gravitate toward that which you secretly most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision-- your ideal.
---- Source Unknown
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything ..... It is not the object that matters to me but what is between them: it is this "in-between" that is the real subject of my pictures. When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches ..... a state of perfect freedom and peace ---- which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes perpetual revelation.
---- George Braque
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once she grows up.
---- Pablo Picasso
It takes a long time to be young.
---- Pablo Picasso
A child is the root of the heart.
---- Carolina Maria de Jesus
I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on the earth is not a hardship but a pastime--- if we live simply and wisely.
---- Henry David Thoreau
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
---- Abraham Maslow
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
---- Carl Jung
There are no accidents whatsover in the universe.
---- Ram Dass
"Persistence trumps talents and looks every time."
---- Aaron Brown
"A leader takes people where they want to go. But a great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but where they ought to be."
---- Rosalynn Carter
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."
---- Mother Teresa
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
---- Indira Gandhi
How can you serve your way to greatness? When you shift your focus from success to service, your work as a teacher, clerk, doctor, or dot-comer will instantly have more meaning.
---- Oprah Winfrey
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
---- Margaret Thatcher
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
---- Gloria Steinem, in The New York Times (1971)
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
---- Estelle Ramey, "Men's Monthly Cycles," in Ms. (1972)
(see NewFilipina's art for this quotation. In the Galeria)
What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us? Because we have no share in public offices. And why have we no share in public offices? Because we have no learning.
---- Sophia, A Person of Quality, Woman Not Inferior to Man (1739)
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
---- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848), Address Delivered at Seneca Falls and Rochester (1870)
To the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
---- Margaret Mead, Male and Female (1949)
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had one-sided government.
---- Nancy Astor, My Two Countries (1923)
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest---and worse still, the shape of his boots. This sees to me a great omission.
---- Fanny Fern, Ginger-Snaps (1870)
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?
---- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1854), in William Still, The Underground Railroad (1872)
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
ãNothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as true strength.ä
---- Ralph Sockman
I do not need to feel guilty for being a powerful woman. Some realities are simple fact.
---- unknown
A woman is like a teabag---only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
---- Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (1981)
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
---- Maya Angelou
The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with truth. Truth is,]. it can neither be lost nor sought nor found. it is there, wherever you are, being within you. Yet it can be recognized or unrecognized.
---- A Course in Miracles
Truth is completely spontaneous. Lies have to be taught.
---- R. Buckminster Fuller
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.
---- Robert M Pirsig, Zen and The Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
---- Agnes Repplier, "Wit and Humor," Essays in Idleness (1893)
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
---- Maya Angelou
A great many people will think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
---- William James
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
---- Colette
We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other.
---- Marianne Williamson in "A Woman's Worth." 1993
If you ain't got on to it by now, that I'm no little, tremblin' wife, you never will. Those kind has nerves. I only got nerve.
---- Julie M. Lippman, Martha-By-the-Day (1912)
"I never married because there was no need.
I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband.
I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all
afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
---- Marie Corelli
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
---- Alice Walker
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
---- Gloria Steinem
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing, until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. They then act and do things accordingly."
---- Zora Neale Hurston
"Helping one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
---- Louisa May Alcott
"Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company."
---- Toni Morrison
"Have a life much bigger than your work. Because if your life's main focus is your work and you lose that part of you, you feel lost. If your life is bigger than your work, then you won't fall apart. Cultivate meaningful relationships and friendships, take care of your family, take care of yourself, take care of your spirit, go with your passions, and learn who you are and what you are here for. Finally, you are living life."
---- Anonymous
"We know that all our work upon this planet is not going to be done in our
lifetimes, but if we do what we came to do, our children will carry it through their own living."
---- Audrey Lorde
"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
---- Audrey Lorde
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
---- Margaret Thatcher
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
---- Gloria Steinem
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
---- Gloria Steinem
"At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."
---- Gloria Steinem
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
---- Maya Angelou
"By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell."
---- Maya Angelou
"The moment a child is born, a woman's life is forever changed, taking on new meaning. Motherhood can be an empowering, and exhausting, experience - unveiling knowledge and insights, and previously untested strength and stamina."
---- Joyce A. Hughes
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
---- L. Yutang
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
---- Alice Walker
ãI remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.ä
---- Abraham Lincoln
ãA woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; instead, she must reverence that woman in her, which struggles for expression... ä
---- M. Sanger, reproductive rights activist
"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
---- Gloria Steinem
"Ahimsa" means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. Who but woman, the mother of man, shows this capacity in the largest measure? She shows it as she carries the infant and feeds it during nine months and derives joy in the suffering involved. What can beat the suffering caused by the pangs of labour? But she forgets them in the joy of creation. Who again suffers daily so that her baby may live from day to day? Let her transfer that love to the whole of humanity... And she will occupy her proud position by the side of man as his mother, maker and silent leader. It is given to her to teach the art of peace to the warring world thirsting for this...
---- Gandhi
Success can come in many areas, such as motherhood, business, or volunteering. It can be finding something that leads you to say, "Nothing I ever did made me feel this important."
---- Elizabeth Dole
Success can come in many areas, such as motherhood, business, or volunteering. It can be finding something that leads you to say, "Nothing I ever did made me feel this important.
---- Elizabeth Dole
Virgin means "a woman unto herself."
---- Marianne Williamson in "A Woman's Worth"
Women have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around them, at work and at home.
---- Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"
Women are air, the world needs them, for they support all life.
---- Elena Luz Gomez
We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other.
---- Marianne Williamson in "A Woman's Worth." 1993
The eternal feminine draws us upward.
---- Johann Wolgang von Goethe
You are a woman of wisdom, courage, strength, compassion and creativity... Go forth with the Fire of Confidence in your heart, kindle it with care, & never let its briliiant flame go out!
---- Caroline Joy Adams
---- Simone de Beauvoir
Where there is a woman there is magic.
---- Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982)
One gender to walk the wide world in / Is the feminine, / A plight that --- softly to a friend---- I can recommend.
---- Helen Bevington, "To Susan at Birth," Nineteen Million Elephants (1950)
I am woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore, / And I know too much / To go back and pretend.
---- Helen Reddy, "I am Woman" (1972)
A woman's place is on top.
---- Slogan on T-shirts, 1978 American Women's Himalayan Expedition to Annapurna, in Arlene Blum, Annapurna (1980)
Without a woman, he who's natural / Is sad, for she's his mother, sister, love. / And rarely is she enemy to him.
---- Christine de Pisan, "Letter of the God of Love" (1399), in Thelma S. Fenster and Mary Carpenter Erler, eds., Poems of Cupid, God of Love (1990)
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
---- Robin Morgan, in Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.
---- Laura Riding, "Women As People" (1934), The Word "Woman" (1993)
When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word "woman" and raise it specially?
---- Ding Ling, "Thoughts on March 8," (1942), I Myself Am a Woman (1989)
Well-behaved women rarely make history.
---- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, in Kay Mills, From Pocahontas to Power Suits (1995)
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
---- Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty (1994)
Too many women in too many countries speak the same language---silence.
---- Anasuya Sengupta, "Silence," news item (1995)
(see NewFilipina's art for this quotation. In the Galeria)
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited.
---Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
Until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
---- Frances Wright, "Of Free Enquiry," Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business world.
---- Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night---she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question---"Is this all?"
---- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.
---- Patricia Schroeder, in Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "Anatomy Isn't Destiny," The New York Times (1977)
If God just wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
---- Clare Boothe Luce, Slam the Door Softly (1970)
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
---- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda J. Gage eds., The History of Woman Suffrage, vol 1 (1881)
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
---- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
---- Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens (1983)
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
---- Marya Mannes, More in Anger (1958)
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
---- Margaret Culkin Banning, A Week in New York (1941)
The sexes in each species of beings are always true equivalents---equals but not identicals.
---- Antoinette Brown Blackwell, The Sexes Thoughout Nature (1875)
There is only one human entity and that is a man and a woman.
---- Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
What is human and the same about males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
---- Estelle Ramey, "Men's Monthly Cycles," in Ms. (1972)
I object to anything that divides the two sexes We make too much of it; we are men and women in the second place, human beings in the first.
---- Olive Schreiner (1884), in S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner, ed., The Letters of Olive Schreiner 1876-1920 (1924)
If a women gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country---it's a whole other way of thinking.
---- Elayne Boosler, in Gloria Kaufman, In Stitches (1991)
WOMANISM (Women's Movement; Pro-Women; Feminism)
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
---- Alice Walker
Feminism is that radical thought that women are human beings.
---- Audre Lorde
The problem with
historians who have ignored
women's roles in human
achievments is that they
have forgotten that the
existence of women is the
world's insurance policy as
much as it is men's.
---- BagongPinay
The eternal feminine draws us upward.
---- Johann Wolgang von Goethe
I don't understand this modern women's movement and about women taking back power...don't women today realize that we have always had the power?
---- Anonymous Older Woman attending recent Seminar
The point of feminism is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated---and enormously effective---efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.
---- Susan Faludi, Backlash (1991)
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
---- Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Global (1984)
People Call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
---- Rebecca West, in The Clarion (1913)
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question "Are women human?" with a yes.
---- Kathy Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures (1994)
"I'm not a feminist," some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them. Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
---- Kaz Cooke, The Modern Girl's Guide to Everything (1989)
Modern young women show strong hostility to the word "feminism," and all which they imagine it to connote. They are, nevertheless, themselves products of the women's movement.
---- Ray Strachey, Our Freedom and Its Results (1936)
Like Broadway, the novel, and God, feminism has been declared dead many times.
---- Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures (1994)
The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
---- Adelaide Anne Procter, letter to Anna Jameson (1838), in Geraldine Macpherson, Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson (1878)
"Persistence trumps talents and looks every time."
---- Aaron Brown
"A leader takes people where they want to go. But a great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but where they ought to be."
---- Rosalynn Carter
"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
---- Michael Jordan
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of
hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish
yourself if you forget the errand."
---- Woodrow Wilson
"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
---- Sandra Day O' Connor
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
---- Indira Gandhi
"Have a life much bigger than your work. Because if your life's main
focus is your work and you lose that part of you, you feel lost. If your
life is bigger than your work, then you won't fall apart. Cultivate meaningful
relationships and friendships, take care of your family, take care of
yourself, take care of your spirit, go with your passions, and learn who
you are and what you are here for. Finally, you are living life."
---- Anonymous
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
---- Margaret Thatcher
the key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward being significant -- and the success will naturally follow.
---- Wintley Phipps
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
---- Oprah Winfrey
"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
---- Maya Angelou
"Nothing will work unless you do."
---- Maya Angelou
ã In empowerment on any
kind of leadership, only
secure leaders give power to
others. ä
---- Anonymous
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit.
---- Helena Rubinstein, My Life for Beauty (1966)
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