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Susan RoAne: The time spent...

Susan RoAne: The time spent...

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom...

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Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Emily Dickinson: Tell all the...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies.


Source: 1868;...

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Beah Richards: For me life...

Beah Richards: For me life...

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a...

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Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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Judith Jamison: I felt the...

Judith Jamison: I felt the...

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and...

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Judith Jamison: So many people...

Judith Jamison: So many people...

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to...

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Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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Jane Austen: A man ....

Jane Austen: A man ....

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...

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George Eliot: If you could...

George Eliot: If you could...

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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George Eliot: The strongest principle...

George Eliot: The strongest principle...

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.


Source:
-- Maya Angelou,...

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Maya Angelou: We need to...

Maya Angelou: We need to...

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the...

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