- "Writing in the first-person singular taught me about the third-person plural."
- "I've always been a patsy for men who could think."
- "When was the last time someone told you how important you are?"
- "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
- "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
- "Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."
- "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
- "Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
- "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
- "Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole woman."
- "The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."
- "Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
- "Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
- "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."
- "Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
- "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- "To those who have given up on love: I say, 'Trust life a little bit.'"
- "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
- "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
- "The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry."
- "One person standing on the word of God is the majority."
- "I won't stay in a relationship if there's no love there."
feb 21 2017 ∞
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