Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world." Charles Malik, former President of the United Nations General Assembly
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." -Luciano de Crescenzo
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. -Diane Mariechild
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly BRAVE. - James A. LaFond-Lewis
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." Maya Angelou
"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly" - Langston Hughes
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Bethold Auerbach
Women are like teabags... ...we don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. -Jon Kabat-Zinn
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -Martha Graham
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. -Henry Miller
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama
I walked a mile with Pleasure. She chattered all the way, but left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, and ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her when Sorrow walked with me! -Robert Browning
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, They lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
DANCE - as if no one were watching
SING - as if no one were listening
LIVE - each day as if it were your last
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Be prepared at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
Life isn't measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away.
A road without obstacles probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear.
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Life must be lived on a higher platform to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes."
"Balance your life and it will align itself with your dreams." - Joe Fermano
You are never given a wish wthout also being given the power to make it come true. -Richard Bach
Birds of a different feather, so often flock together. For they know though they're not the same, they're on the same endeavor. God has made us all unique, but wants us not to turn our cheek to our fellow man, but lend a hand and be kind to everyone you meet.
It's not how many doors are opened to you that counts, it's how many you're brave enough to walk through.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring. All of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. -Abraham Lincoln