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Quotations
for Inspiration
"It's ok. You don't need to care." Mason, age 5 "Mama? Why did we just pass a sign that says, Do Not Pass?" Emma Fischer, age 7, riding in the car "All of life is creating." Dylan Smith, age 9 "Touch is the meaning of being human." Andrea Dworkin "Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect." Joan Didion "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin "You do not have to justify your physical existence. Your existence is justification enough." Jerry & Esther Hicks "Your thorns are the best part of you." Marianne Moore "The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught." Rachel Field "Silence is where the victims dwell." Nelly Sachs "Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony." Elizabeth Fishel "Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence." Hannah More (1811) "Sex is never an emergency." Elaine Pierson "I'm five-feet-four, but I always feel six-foot-one, tall and strong." Yvette Mimieux "Women who have a low value on themselves make life hard for all women." Nellie L. McClung (1915) "I'm single because I was born that way." Mae West "Men and women, women and men. It will never work." Erica Jong "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." Mark Twain "If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure." Robert Hillyer
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." Friedrich Nietzsche "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot "Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional." Roger Crawford "To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages." Susan B. Anthony "...as an individual, she must rely on herself." Elizabeth Cady Stanton "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." Mark Twain "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." Confucious "Not all who wander are lost." JRR Tolkein "One must have chaos in ones self in order to give birth to a dancing star." Nietzsche "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." Francis Bacon "Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines." Amy Tan
Here are
some quotes from Sarah Ban Breathnach in "Today I want you to become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity you needed to make your dreams come true." "We can all find ways to regenerate once we realize how essential solitude is to our experience of inner harmony." "How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful?"
The following
are from the 1981 version of "...the function of freedom is to free somebody else." Toni Morrison "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." Phyllis Diller "If you can do it then why do it?" Gertrude Stein "There is nothing new except what has been forgotten." Marie Antoinette "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." Faith Baldwin
Some ideas
are timeless! The following quotes are from "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." Jerome K. Jerome (1886) "What a sad old age you are preparing for yourself." Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (1870) "I must have women. There is nothing unbends the mind like them." John Gay (1728)
~~more quotations here, here and here~~ *
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