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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton, 1862-1937

Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute, look at it and really see it, live it and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us. ~ If I Had My Life To Live Over, Erma Bombeck

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course. ~ Harper Lee

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. ~ Marie Curie, Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry

I make beanstalks; I'm a builder, like yourself. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet

There was a time where I never had a sense of purpose, never felt useful as a person. I think a lot of people have that feeling, wanting to kill yourself or take drugs or numb yourself out because you can't shut it off or you just feel bad and you don't know what it's from... If you've built schools or raised a child or done something to make things better... it just feels better. Life is better. ~ Angelina Jolie

Genius is the gold in the mine. Talent is the miner that works and brings it out. ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington, British author

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic medalist

One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ Jane Austen (1775-1817) in Emma

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ~ Fran Lebowitz

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) in Sonnets from the Portuguese

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ~ Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) The New Colossus

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. ~ Veronica Shoffstall

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~ Suzanne Necker, 1739-1794

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ~ Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006

Inside every older lady is a younger lady -- wondering what the hell happened. ~ Cora Harvey Armstrong

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. ~ Helen Hayes, at age 73

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. ~ Janette Barber

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. ~ Lily Tomlin

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. ~ Carrie Snow

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. ~ Laurie Kuslansky

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~ Erma Bombeck

Old age ain't no place for sissies. ~ Bette Davis

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. ~ Rhonda Hansome

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman

If I had my life to live over I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. ~ Nadine Stair

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~ Charlotte Whitton

I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~ Anonymous

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. ~ Sue Grafton

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person, Having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, But pouring them all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, Certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, Keep what is worth keeping, And with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. ~ Roseanne Barr

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. ~ Elayne Boosler

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ~ Maryon Pearson

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ~ Gloria Steinem

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. ~ Zsa Gabor

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans ) 1819-1880

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~ Marlene Dietrich, 1904-1992

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world. ~ Cher

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans ) 1819-1880

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to making leaning unnecessary. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

All serious daring starts from within. ~ Eudora Welty

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. ~ Lisa Alther

Are we having fun yet? ~ Carol Burnett

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ~ Fran Lebowitz

While others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper, I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine. ~ Barbara Gordon

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it. ~ Madeline Kahn

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ~ Jessamyn West

I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~ Erica Jong

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework. Neither one of us does it. ~ Dottie Archibald

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie

A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ~ Nancy Reagan

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ~ Diane Arbus

She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems. ~ Jean Stafford

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. ~ Dinah Shore

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ~ Coco Chanel

Never eat more than you can lift. ~ Miss Piggy

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~ George Eliot 1819-1880

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ~ Rita Mae Brown

People change and forget to tell each other. ~ Lillian Hellman

It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ~ Elinor Smith

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ~ Mary Little

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~ Anais Nin

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~ Germaine Greer

There is nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. ~ Sara Teasdale

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~ Coco Chanel

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evans)

Desire sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. ~ Unknown

To err is human, but it feels divine. ~ Mae West

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ~ Doris Lessing

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sand, Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876)

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson

Girls just want to have fun. ~ Cyndi Lauper

The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~ Erma Bombeck

Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ~ Unknown

But if you cultivate a health poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. ~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

There are oases of both quietude and renewal, and these must be respected, protected, and given time. One cannot force a birth. ~ Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~ George Eliot

If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. ~ Roseanne Barr

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most significant success is achieved. ~ Anne Sullivan

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time. ~ Edith Wharton

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ Helen Keller

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

Opportunities are disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ~ Ann Landers

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~ Madame Curie

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. ~ Sandra Day O'Conner

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Betty Ford

All great achievements require time. ~ Anne Frank

Success doesn't come to you...You go to it. ~ Marva Collins

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I hope life brings you much success.
I wish you a very happy day.

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