Sayings to Inspire Women

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
          Anais Nin

   "The best way to cheer yourself up
    is to try to cheer somebody else up."
          Mark Twain

   "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
          Booker T. Washington

I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. 
~ Gilda Radner

All value resides in individuals. Value is distributed in individual space, Relationship economics is the framework for wealth creation. Deep support is the new metaproduct.
~ Shoshanna Zuboff

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. 
~ Zora Neale Hurston

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
~  Maya Angelou

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
~ Simone Weil

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
~ Gracie Allen

We only keep what we lose.
~ May Sarton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~  Harriet Beecher Stowe

Language is magic:  it makes things appear and disappear.
~ Nicole Brossard

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
~ Adel Bestavros

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
~  Emily Dickinson 

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
~ Lily Tomlin

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
~ Dolores Huerta


Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
~ Candace Pert

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
~ Mother Theresa

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
~ Lily Tomlin

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
~ Lily Tomlin

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
~ Lily Tomlin 

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
~ May Sarton

A true leader is not one you look up to because they are the best. A true leader is one that draws the best out in you.
~ Anne Warfield

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
~ May Sarton

When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.
~ Amanda McBroom

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~  Anais Nin

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
~  Carrie Fisher

Bloom where you are planted.
~  Nancy Reader

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. 
~  Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.  
~ Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach