Past quotes...
“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together."
Brene Brown
"Acceptance is an emotional phenomenon. It’s the letting go of the emotional demand for something to be different."
David Cain
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they would live a lot differently."
Unknown
"Ett leende är det bästa smink en tjej kan bära."
Rebecca Lundberg of Sweden
Translation: A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Rumi
"A plant has no knowledge of whether it is superior, indifferent or lowly; it merely grows after its given nature."
from a commentary on The Lotus Sutra
"Love is the bridge between you and everything."
Rumi
"The kids who need the most love ask for it in the most unloving of ways."
Unknown
"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."
Peggy O'Mara
"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
Lucy Stone
“There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.”
Bob Anderson
"The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately. Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, and is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, but they are there, deep inside of the soul of the one you touched."
Dan Kelly
"Don’t ask so much what the world needs. Go out and do what makes you come alive, because what the world needs most are people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
“Some people are so poor. All they have is money.”
Unknown
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I choose Love and Peace over fear."
Lydia Tillman (speaking about her attacker)
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Marilyn Monroe
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Henri Nouwen
"I do not wish women to have power over men;
but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"People get more riled up by a woman having confidence rather than anything else, I think."
-Amy Schumer
"You can learn something from everyone you encounter. You can learn how to do something, or how not to do it. You can learn how to act, or how not to act."
-Unknown
"You were given the life you have because you are strong enough to live it."
- Angela Parker
"Stars cannot shine without darkness."
- Unknown
"Every day, you wake up and decide to love or not to love yourself. Everyone you encounter is affected by that decision."
- David Christian
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”
-Jennifer Aniston
"When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same."
-Maryanne Williamson
Brene Brown
"Acceptance is an emotional phenomenon. It’s the letting go of the emotional demand for something to be different."
David Cain
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they would live a lot differently."
Unknown
"Ett leende är det bästa smink en tjej kan bära."
Rebecca Lundberg of Sweden
Translation: A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Rumi
"A plant has no knowledge of whether it is superior, indifferent or lowly; it merely grows after its given nature."
from a commentary on The Lotus Sutra
"Love is the bridge between you and everything."
Rumi
"The kids who need the most love ask for it in the most unloving of ways."
Unknown
"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."
Peggy O'Mara
"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
Lucy Stone
“There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.”
Bob Anderson
"The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately. Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, and is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, but they are there, deep inside of the soul of the one you touched."
Dan Kelly
"Don’t ask so much what the world needs. Go out and do what makes you come alive, because what the world needs most are people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
“Some people are so poor. All they have is money.”
Unknown
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I choose Love and Peace over fear."
Lydia Tillman (speaking about her attacker)
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Marilyn Monroe
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
Henri Nouwen
"I do not wish women to have power over men;
but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"People get more riled up by a woman having confidence rather than anything else, I think."
-Amy Schumer
"You can learn something from everyone you encounter. You can learn how to do something, or how not to do it. You can learn how to act, or how not to act."
-Unknown
"You were given the life you have because you are strong enough to live it."
- Angela Parker
"Stars cannot shine without darkness."
- Unknown
"Every day, you wake up and decide to love or not to love yourself. Everyone you encounter is affected by that decision."
- David Christian
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”
-Jennifer Aniston
"When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same."
-Maryanne Williamson