“ Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard wo… Adrienne Rich
“ Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and exp… Germany Kent
“ I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.) Maya Angelou
“ You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling. Lailah GiftyAkita
“ If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world… Esther Hicks
“ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen
“ It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today. Rom Watangu
“ I have so much health problems, but I believe I could still make it through. Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“ When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up. Germany Kent
“ It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w… Antonia Fraser
“ If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold. Zeena Schreck
“ Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments… Joss Whedon
“ Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bronte