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Latest Soul Sisters Quotes
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Whatever the mind of [wo]man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.”
The work is great, the time is short. We may not be able to complete the task but that does not excuse us from beginning
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: • they must be fit for it • they must not do too much of it and • they must have a sense of success in it.
If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at.
There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.
The universe gives us extra chances to keep dreaming. Each one an uprising, a burst of colour in the cracks of our hearts, sunrise at an unexpected time, in an unexpected place.
I never notice what has been done. I only notice what remains to be done.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Life is too short not to nurture your inner child. Make sure in your busy life of "To Do Lists" that you make time to have fun!
As soon as I have a deadline, I work much better. Time unbounded is hard to handle.
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.
Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.
The best thing you can do in business is to empower women. It changes everything.
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
My biggest talent is that I know who is more talented that I am. I find them, and I go to them, and I learn.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
We can’t heal today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love and an act of kindness.
Never be limited by other people's imagination.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Use your fear; it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
Remember you have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Happiness isn't measured by what we get for ourselves. It is measured by what we give others.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you make a wrong decision, you are making it for a good reason.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
No one is useless in this world, that lessens the burdens of another.
Asking for help isn’t giving up. It’s refusing to give up.
We’re so busy watching out for what’s ahead of us, that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, for as long as ever you can.
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
You are never too old to set another goal, or dream another dream.
It's amazing how 'work friends' can turn into people you genuinely can't get through life without.
Not every day is a good day, but there is something good in every day.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
A boss looks for reasons to say no. A leader looks for reasons to say yes. A boss issues orders and demands loyalty. A leader gives direction and takes responsibility. A boss expects to be the most important person in the room. A leader makes everyone feel important.
Whenever people ask me for advice, I tell them two things: Never give up on your dreams, and do your homework.
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.
It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.
Faith is taking a first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take. The time will pass anyway.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were ‘normal’ or unbroken…when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.
What you do today can improve all tomorrow's.
It seemed that one had little control over one’s own destiny. All one could do was to get on with the one job that nobody else could do, the job of being oneself.
It's not your job to be likeable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When they are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
Becoming is better than being.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
People seldom see themselves changing. It is like going out in the morning, or in the springtime to pick flowers. You pick and you wander till suddenly you find that the light is gone and the flowers are withered in your hand.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
To change fate, you do not choose small steps.
Beneath every behaviour, there is a feeling. Beneath each feeling is a need. When we meet the need, rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom.
When someone tells me "no", it doesn't mean I can't do it. It simply means I can't do it with them.
There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves.
If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.
If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
Strong women don’t have “attitudes”, we have standards.
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something, you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things.”
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
We don’t have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us.
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one’s impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!
Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama or negativity. Just higher goals and motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy or hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other.
There are people less qualified than you, doing the things you want to do, simply because they decided to believe in themselves.
Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Bad luck in small doses can cast a glittering light on the rest of life.
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while. But no amount of travel will give us rest and recreation if we carry our work and worries with us.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
There is something magical about beginnings, about the challenges that come with territory not yet conquered, about being the underdog. I think I’d far rather stand at the beginning of something, looking up, rather than at a summit, looking down.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
So we scramble to fill ourselves—our time, our body, our mind. We might buy something new or lose ourselves in mindless small talk. As soon as we have a gap, we go on-line to check our e-mail, we turn on music, we get a snack, watch television—anything to help us bury the feelings of vulnerability and deficiency lurking in our psyche.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe, what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.
My “why” is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them, so that each of us can change the world for the better.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
You can't stop the waves, but we can learn how to surf.
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
You don’t’ think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
I will not let anybody walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
The size of our dreams must always exceed our current capacity to achieve them.
If you're not being laughed at or criticized by anybody, you're simply not thinking big enough.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on.
The people you are leading have big expectations of you. They want you to be perfect and often forget that you are human. But the more human you are with them, the more trust and empathy they lend to you.
Popularity is how many likes you collect. Impact is how many lives you enrich.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Spread love everywhere you go; let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Well I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
The mind is like water. When it is turbulent, is difficult to see. When it is calm, everything becomes clear.
We must not be afraid to put into effect the strength of our own convictions.
There’s no human being who doesn’t dream. We don’t know yet why this plunge into dream-mind and its freedoms is needed, but we do know that imagination is as necessary as air.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.
Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life… to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that she needs sunlight, calcium or love.
As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
I’m learning that I am not lightning that strikes once. I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for tomorrow.
Anyone who claims to be a leader must speak like a leader. That means speaking with integrity and truth.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, burned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, one life can change the world.
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
Beyond cloud computers and brilliant smartphones, the secret to productivity lies within and between us. It’s about a calmer, more open and undistracted mind, greater self-awareness, and an enhanced capacity for self-transformation.
A woman is whole only when she takes into account her shadow.
The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Life's most urgent questions is: 'What are you doing for others?
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
I'm very much aware of the duality of being completely heartbroken and madly happy at the same time. Some would say that's some kind of chemical imbalance, but I say it’s a good state. The brain and the body and the heart can accommodate those very, very, very contrasting and conflicting emotions.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
A life spent making mistakes is not only honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Sometimes I write "drink wine" on my to-do-list just so I can feel like I accomplished something.
Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
Though still very far from being perfect girls, each was slowly learning, in her own way, one of the three lessons all are the better for knowing – that cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends; that in ordering one’s self aright one helps others to do the same; and that the power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Don’t get confused between what people say you are, and who you know you are.
Each person has a uniqueness, a divine spark, a masterpiece within. Our job is to find what that uniqueness is and share it with the world.
When something goes wrong in your life just yell ‘PLOT TWIST,’ and move on.
The ability to find the funny pumps oxygen into adverse situations. With humour, we can lives our lives a little more honestly, and less fearfully, even though we can't make bed things go away.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.
What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.
Lend someone a hand today. No task is too small. Notice how taking a moment for another person feels.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
You always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
When women succeed, we all win.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Every day I wake up and ask myself, "How can I accept myself and others more fully?"
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
DNA research has revealed that, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race, humans are 99.9% the same. If you want to foster a greater sense of connection in your life, as you go through your day and encounter someone who you think is different from you, silently say, 'Just like me,' and see what you notice.
The more conscious we become, the more we become aware of unconscious influences working upon our daily choices.
An arrow can only be released when it is pulled back. So when life pushes back, it simply means you’re launching into something amazing.
Seeing something wondrous—a child’s smile, a huge wave crashing on the shore, a giant tree swaying in the wind, a starlit sky—inspires awe, the emotion that lets us know that the world is larger than the little story we’re telling ourselves in any moment.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; If in terms of 10 years, plant trees; If in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is just too much good news to justify despair.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Admitting you do not know everything shows more wisdom than believing you have all the answers.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not punishment for what you ate.
The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
Ego says: “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.” Spirit says: “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.”
Latest Soul Sisters Quotes
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Whatever the mind of [wo]man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.”
The work is great, the time is short. We may not be able to complete the task but that does not excuse us from beginning
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: • they must be fit for it • they must not do too much of it and • they must have a sense of success in it.
If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at.
There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.
The universe gives us extra chances to keep dreaming. Each one an uprising, a burst of colour in the cracks of our hearts, sunrise at an unexpected time, in an unexpected place.
I never notice what has been done. I only notice what remains to be done.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Life is too short not to nurture your inner child. Make sure in your busy life of "To Do Lists" that you make time to have fun!
As soon as I have a deadline, I work much better. Time unbounded is hard to handle.
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.
Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.
The best thing you can do in business is to empower women. It changes everything.
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
My biggest talent is that I know who is more talented that I am. I find them, and I go to them, and I learn.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
We can’t heal today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love and an act of kindness.
Never be limited by other people's imagination.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Use your fear; it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
Remember you have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Happiness isn't measured by what we get for ourselves. It is measured by what we give others.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you make a wrong decision, you are making it for a good reason.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
No one is useless in this world, that lessens the burdens of another.
Asking for help isn’t giving up. It’s refusing to give up.
We’re so busy watching out for what’s ahead of us, that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, for as long as ever you can.
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
You are never too old to set another goal, or dream another dream.
It's amazing how 'work friends' can turn into people you genuinely can't get through life without.
Not every day is a good day, but there is something good in every day.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
A boss looks for reasons to say no. A leader looks for reasons to say yes. A boss issues orders and demands loyalty. A leader gives direction and takes responsibility. A boss expects to be the most important person in the room. A leader makes everyone feel important.
Whenever people ask me for advice, I tell them two things: Never give up on your dreams, and do your homework.
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.
It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.
Faith is taking a first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take. The time will pass anyway.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were ‘normal’ or unbroken…when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.
What you do today can improve all tomorrow's.
It seemed that one had little control over one’s own destiny. All one could do was to get on with the one job that nobody else could do, the job of being oneself.
It's not your job to be likeable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When they are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
Becoming is better than being.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
People seldom see themselves changing. It is like going out in the morning, or in the springtime to pick flowers. You pick and you wander till suddenly you find that the light is gone and the flowers are withered in your hand.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
To change fate, you do not choose small steps.
Beneath every behaviour, there is a feeling. Beneath each feeling is a need. When we meet the need, rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom.
When someone tells me "no", it doesn't mean I can't do it. It simply means I can't do it with them.
There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves.
If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.
If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
Strong women don’t have “attitudes”, we have standards.
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something, you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things.”
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
We don’t have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us.
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one’s impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!
Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama or negativity. Just higher goals and motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy or hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other.
There are people less qualified than you, doing the things you want to do, simply because they decided to believe in themselves.
Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Bad luck in small doses can cast a glittering light on the rest of life.
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while. But no amount of travel will give us rest and recreation if we carry our work and worries with us.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
There is something magical about beginnings, about the challenges that come with territory not yet conquered, about being the underdog. I think I’d far rather stand at the beginning of something, looking up, rather than at a summit, looking down.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
So we scramble to fill ourselves—our time, our body, our mind. We might buy something new or lose ourselves in mindless small talk. As soon as we have a gap, we go on-line to check our e-mail, we turn on music, we get a snack, watch television—anything to help us bury the feelings of vulnerability and deficiency lurking in our psyche.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe, what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.
My “why” is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them, so that each of us can change the world for the better.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
You can't stop the waves, but we can learn how to surf.
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
You don’t’ think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
I will not let anybody walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
The size of our dreams must always exceed our current capacity to achieve them.
If you're not being laughed at or criticized by anybody, you're simply not thinking big enough.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on.
The people you are leading have big expectations of you. They want you to be perfect and often forget that you are human. But the more human you are with them, the more trust and empathy they lend to you.
Popularity is how many likes you collect. Impact is how many lives you enrich.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Spread love everywhere you go; let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Well I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
The mind is like water. When it is turbulent, is difficult to see. When it is calm, everything becomes clear.
We must not be afraid to put into effect the strength of our own convictions.
There’s no human being who doesn’t dream. We don’t know yet why this plunge into dream-mind and its freedoms is needed, but we do know that imagination is as necessary as air.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.
Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life… to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that she needs sunlight, calcium or love.
As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
I’m learning that I am not lightning that strikes once. I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for tomorrow.
Anyone who claims to be a leader must speak like a leader. That means speaking with integrity and truth.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, burned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, one life can change the world.
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
Beyond cloud computers and brilliant smartphones, the secret to productivity lies within and between us. It’s about a calmer, more open and undistracted mind, greater self-awareness, and an enhanced capacity for self-transformation.
A woman is whole only when she takes into account her shadow.
The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Life's most urgent questions is: 'What are you doing for others?
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
I'm very much aware of the duality of being completely heartbroken and madly happy at the same time. Some would say that's some kind of chemical imbalance, but I say it’s a good state. The brain and the body and the heart can accommodate those very, very, very contrasting and conflicting emotions.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
A life spent making mistakes is not only honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Sometimes I write "drink wine" on my to-do-list just so I can feel like I accomplished something.
Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
Though still very far from being perfect girls, each was slowly learning, in her own way, one of the three lessons all are the better for knowing – that cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends; that in ordering one’s self aright one helps others to do the same; and that the power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Don’t get confused between what people say you are, and who you know you are.
Each person has a uniqueness, a divine spark, a masterpiece within. Our job is to find what that uniqueness is and share it with the world.
When something goes wrong in your life just yell ‘PLOT TWIST,’ and move on.
The ability to find the funny pumps oxygen into adverse situations. With humour, we can lives our lives a little more honestly, and less fearfully, even though we can't make bed things go away.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.
What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.
Lend someone a hand today. No task is too small. Notice how taking a moment for another person feels.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
You always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
When women succeed, we all win.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Every day I wake up and ask myself, "How can I accept myself and others more fully?"
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
DNA research has revealed that, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race, humans are 99.9% the same. If you want to foster a greater sense of connection in your life, as you go through your day and encounter someone who you think is different from you, silently say, 'Just like me,' and see what you notice.
The more conscious we become, the more we become aware of unconscious influences working upon our daily choices.
An arrow can only be released when it is pulled back. So when life pushes back, it simply means you’re launching into something amazing.
Seeing something wondrous—a child’s smile, a huge wave crashing on the shore, a giant tree swaying in the wind, a starlit sky—inspires awe, the emotion that lets us know that the world is larger than the little story we’re telling ourselves in any moment.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; If in terms of 10 years, plant trees; If in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is just too much good news to justify despair.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Admitting you do not know everything shows more wisdom than believing you have all the answers.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not punishment for what you ate.
The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
Ego says: “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.” Spirit says: “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.”
Latest Soul Sisters Quotes
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Whatever the mind of [wo]man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.”
The work is great, the time is short. We may not be able to complete the task but that does not excuse us from beginning
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: • they must be fit for it • they must not do too much of it and • they must have a sense of success in it.
If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at.
There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.
The universe gives us extra chances to keep dreaming. Each one an uprising, a burst of colour in the cracks of our hearts, sunrise at an unexpected time, in an unexpected place.
I never notice what has been done. I only notice what remains to be done.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Life is too short not to nurture your inner child. Make sure in your busy life of "To Do Lists" that you make time to have fun!
As soon as I have a deadline, I work much better. Time unbounded is hard to handle.
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.
Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.
The best thing you can do in business is to empower women. It changes everything.
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
My biggest talent is that I know who is more talented that I am. I find them, and I go to them, and I learn.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
We can’t heal today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love and an act of kindness.
Never be limited by other people's imagination.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Use your fear; it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
Remember you have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Happiness isn't measured by what we get for ourselves. It is measured by what we give others.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you make a wrong decision, you are making it for a good reason.
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
No one is useless in this world, that lessens the burdens of another.
Asking for help isn’t giving up. It’s refusing to give up.
We’re so busy watching out for what’s ahead of us, that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, for as long as ever you can.
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
You are never too old to set another goal, or dream another dream.
It's amazing how 'work friends' can turn into people you genuinely can't get through life without.
Not every day is a good day, but there is something good in every day.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
A boss looks for reasons to say no. A leader looks for reasons to say yes. A boss issues orders and demands loyalty. A leader gives direction and takes responsibility. A boss expects to be the most important person in the room. A leader makes everyone feel important.
Whenever people ask me for advice, I tell them two things: Never give up on your dreams, and do your homework.
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.
It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves.
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.
Faith is taking a first step even when you don't see the whole staircase
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take. The time will pass anyway.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were ‘normal’ or unbroken…when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.
What you do today can improve all tomorrow's.
It seemed that one had little control over one’s own destiny. All one could do was to get on with the one job that nobody else could do, the job of being oneself.
It's not your job to be likeable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When they are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
Becoming is better than being.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
People seldom see themselves changing. It is like going out in the morning, or in the springtime to pick flowers. You pick and you wander till suddenly you find that the light is gone and the flowers are withered in your hand.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
To change fate, you do not choose small steps.
Beneath every behaviour, there is a feeling. Beneath each feeling is a need. When we meet the need, rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom.
When someone tells me "no", it doesn't mean I can't do it. It simply means I can't do it with them.
There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves.
If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.
If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
Strong women don’t have “attitudes”, we have standards.
One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something, you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things.”
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
We don’t have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us.
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one’s impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!
Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama or negativity. Just higher goals and motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy or hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other.
There are people less qualified than you, doing the things you want to do, simply because they decided to believe in themselves.
Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Bad luck in small doses can cast a glittering light on the rest of life.
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while. But no amount of travel will give us rest and recreation if we carry our work and worries with us.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
There is something magical about beginnings, about the challenges that come with territory not yet conquered, about being the underdog. I think I’d far rather stand at the beginning of something, looking up, rather than at a summit, looking down.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
So we scramble to fill ourselves—our time, our body, our mind. We might buy something new or lose ourselves in mindless small talk. As soon as we have a gap, we go on-line to check our e-mail, we turn on music, we get a snack, watch television—anything to help us bury the feelings of vulnerability and deficiency lurking in our psyche.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe, what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.
My “why” is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them, so that each of us can change the world for the better.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
You can't stop the waves, but we can learn how to surf.
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
You don’t’ think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
I will not let anybody walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
The size of our dreams must always exceed our current capacity to achieve them.
If you're not being laughed at or criticized by anybody, you're simply not thinking big enough.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on.
The people you are leading have big expectations of you. They want you to be perfect and often forget that you are human. But the more human you are with them, the more trust and empathy they lend to you.
Popularity is how many likes you collect. Impact is how many lives you enrich.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Spread love everywhere you go; let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Well I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
The mind is like water. When it is turbulent, is difficult to see. When it is calm, everything becomes clear.
We must not be afraid to put into effect the strength of our own convictions.
There’s no human being who doesn’t dream. We don’t know yet why this plunge into dream-mind and its freedoms is needed, but we do know that imagination is as necessary as air.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.
Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream.
You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life… to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that she needs sunlight, calcium or love.
As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.
I’m learning that I am not lightning that strikes once. I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for tomorrow.
Anyone who claims to be a leader must speak like a leader. That means speaking with integrity and truth.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, burned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, one life can change the world.
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
Beyond cloud computers and brilliant smartphones, the secret to productivity lies within and between us. It’s about a calmer, more open and undistracted mind, greater self-awareness, and an enhanced capacity for self-transformation.
A woman is whole only when she takes into account her shadow.
The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Life's most urgent questions is: 'What are you doing for others?
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
I'm very much aware of the duality of being completely heartbroken and madly happy at the same time. Some would say that's some kind of chemical imbalance, but I say it’s a good state. The brain and the body and the heart can accommodate those very, very, very contrasting and conflicting emotions.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
A life spent making mistakes is not only honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Sometimes I write "drink wine" on my to-do-list just so I can feel like I accomplished something.
Do all you can, with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
Though still very far from being perfect girls, each was slowly learning, in her own way, one of the three lessons all are the better for knowing – that cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends; that in ordering one’s self aright one helps others to do the same; and that the power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Don’t get confused between what people say you are, and who you know you are.
Each person has a uniqueness, a divine spark, a masterpiece within. Our job is to find what that uniqueness is and share it with the world.
When something goes wrong in your life just yell ‘PLOT TWIST,’ and move on.
The ability to find the funny pumps oxygen into adverse situations. With humour, we can lives our lives a little more honestly, and less fearfully, even though we can't make bed things go away.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.
What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.
Lend someone a hand today. No task is too small. Notice how taking a moment for another person feels.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
You always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
When women succeed, we all win.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Every day I wake up and ask myself, "How can I accept myself and others more fully?"
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Your body will be around a lot longer than an expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
DNA research has revealed that, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race, humans are 99.9% the same. If you want to foster a greater sense of connection in your life, as you go through your day and encounter someone who you think is different from you, silently say, 'Just like me,' and see what you notice.
The more conscious we become, the more we become aware of unconscious influences working upon our daily choices.
An arrow can only be released when it is pulled back. So when life pushes back, it simply means you’re launching into something amazing.
Seeing something wondrous—a child’s smile, a huge wave crashing on the shore, a giant tree swaying in the wind, a starlit sky—inspires awe, the emotion that lets us know that the world is larger than the little story we’re telling ourselves in any moment.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; If in terms of 10 years, plant trees; If in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is just too much good news to justify despair.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Admitting you do not know everything shows more wisdom than believing you have all the answers.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do, not punishment for what you ate.
The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
Ego says: “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.” Spirit says: “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.”