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Some of the most inspirational quotes were authored by women, although, unfortunately, throughout history the words spoken and written by women have been less carefully preserved than quotes by men - or have ended up attributed to a male pseudonym or to "anonymous."
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 most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anaïs Nin
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-
Helen Keller
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
-
Helen Keller
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
-
Helen Keller
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege.
Use it. Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
-
Helen Keller
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
-
Helen Keller
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
- Helen Keller
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Resolve to keep happy,
and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
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.
- Maya Angelou
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Live boldly.
Laugh Loudly.
Love Truly.
Play as often as you can.
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh. Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-
Anaïs Nin
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anaïs Nin
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anaïs Nin
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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