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Marianne Williamson: If you give...

Marianne Williamson: If you give...

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to...

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Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Happiness is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: Happiness is nothing...

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Source: Moses: Man of...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but...

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Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Source: But I...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Source: In Words of Women...

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St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you...

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Suzanne K Langer: Art is the...

Suzanne K Langer: Art is the...

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Source: Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When I teach...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When I teach...

When I teach people, I marry them.

Source: Teacher, 1963.
-- Sylvia...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding...

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Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Source: In...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: With God, I...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: With God, I...

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're...

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Marie Curie: To be nobody-but-yourself...

Marie Curie: To be nobody-but-yourself...

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to...

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Diane Ravitch: The person who...

Diane Ravitch: The person who...

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the...

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Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. . . . Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your...

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Kirstie Alley: People change, not...

Kirstie Alley: People change, not...

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just...

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Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Source: An Anthropologist at...

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Shirley Hufstedler: I empathize with...

Shirley Hufstedler: I empathize with...

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international...

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