“ Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons. George du Maurier
“ It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. Christian Bovee
“ God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within. Macrina Wiederkehr
“ Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say "Well white people kept me back and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you wan… Clara McBride Hale
“ Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. Louis Kronenberger
“ Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as wel… Charlotte Bunch
“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“ The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth. Cicero
“ Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people. Florence Hurst Harriman
“ There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead. Mary Pettibone Poole
“ Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them. Shirley Lord
“ Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased. Margaret Gatty
“ Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be. Maria Mitchell
“ Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are. Mack McGinnis
“ How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional. sue atchley ebaugh
“ I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! Theodore Roosevelt
“ To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. Sandra Bierig
