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By The River: Daily Meditations

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Color Online Group Shelf

“Do you mean to say that you don’t believe in working in the interest of women? That’s what feminism is: It’s working to assure that women are not limited in their options and opportunities by virtue of their gender.”
~Faye Wattleton

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Color Online Group Shelf

“Sisters have taught me that we should listen to the poetry within, capture and express our inner beauty as a part of our political and social being.”

~Manning Marable, PH.D
American historian

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Color Online Group Shelf

“You must structure your world so that you are constantly reminded of who you are.”
~Na’im Akbar

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Color Online Group Shelf

“I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”

~Brenda Ueland

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zawadi

"It is not our difference which immobilizes us but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken."
~Audre Lorde

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zawadi

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
~Gloria Naylor

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Color Online Group Shelf

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity."

~Ruby Dee

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Color Online Group Shelf

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
~Audre Lorde

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Color Online Group Shelf

"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
~June Jordan

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zawadi

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

~June Jordan

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zawadi (edited)

“The day I looked at myself with a natural was the first time I liked what I saw.”
~Marita Golden

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Color Online Group Shelf

“The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.”
~Toni Cade Bambara

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Color Online Group Shelf

“Survival ain’t liberation.”
~Keisho Yvonne Scott
American writer

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Jaede

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~~ Indora Gandhi

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Lisa B (edited)

"...it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Love, Pray

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zawadi (edited)

"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. "
~Rita Dove

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Karen

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
~Mark Twain

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zawadi

"Enough of shouting against the wind. All words are noise if not accompanied with action."
~Gloria Anzaldua

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zawadi

"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."
~Lucille Clifton

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Jaede

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Lisa B

"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
~Nikki Giovanni

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zawadi

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
~Pearl Bailey

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rowanthea

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Maryanne Williamson

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- zawadi
  
  One of my favorite quotes. Did you know Laurence Fishburne quoted this in the movie, "Akeelah The Bee"?
  
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- rowanthea
  
  No I didn't......worth watching the movie just to hear him quote this. It's on my list of movies to see I'm moving it up now.....thanks Z
  
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- zawadi
  
  Yes, do see the movie. The girls will like it and Laurence is very nice eye-candy. He could read a milk carton to me. :-)
  
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- MS Judy L
  
  He is nice eye candy & I loved the movie!
  
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zawadi

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
~Alice Walker

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zawadi

“The most sacred place isn’t the church, the mosque or the temple, it’s the temple of the body.”
~Susan Taylor

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Shasta

"We love because it is the only true adventure."
- Nikki Giovanni

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
--Ursula K. LeGuin

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zawadi

“The love we desire is already within us.”
~A Course in Miracles

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zawadi

...don't know, but I do know this: A good story doesn't care. What matters is that the story cast its magic, that it silence you into listening, and move you to laugh, and even better, to cry and then laugh, and a long time later, to haunt you. Long after you have closed the book, it's what haunts and stays with you that matters, for then the story will have done its work.
~Sandra Cisneros

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zawadi

“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
~Rita Dove

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zawadi

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
~Mary Frances Berry

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- MS Judy L
  
  I may have said this in here before related to something else - this reminds me of something we used to say as direct activists - Those of you who think it can't be done need to get out of the way of those of us who are doing it. Not sure of the origin or who said it.
  
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zawadi

"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
~Gwendolyn Brooks

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. ~Audre Lorde

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being. ~Oprah Winfrey

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mnnorthwoodsgal

When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it.
--Mildred Newman

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- zawadi
  
  love this, thanks.
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

Ida Goodson:
"I don't know, it's just something about it -- a woman can always sing the blues better than a man can."

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MS Judy L

“…I realized at a young age that good manners are more important than beauty and that perseverance is more important than connections.” Celia Cruz

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mnnorthwoodsgal

We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership. ~Michelle Obama

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MS Judy L

“…and if you are no longer wrecked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else.” Anne Lamott

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mnnorthwoodsgal

The especial genius of women, I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
--Margaret Fuller

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mnnorthwoodsgal

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. ~ Aretha Franklin

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MS Judy L

Here is a link to Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song For A Day - A poem written for Barack Obama & read at his inaugural today. IMO a beautiful tribute & an inspiration.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5556031.ece

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MS Judy L

"We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." President Barack Obama

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- cpauley929
  
  That's just beautiful *tear*
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery. ~ Diana Abu-Jaber

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- cpauley929
  
  I love this quote. Many people don't enjoy short stories, and I think it's for the reason described in this quote. People miss that the whole point is to create a feeling, or a question, or set a mood, not answer life's questions. Thanks for sharing!
  
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- MS Judy L
  
  I just love Abu-Jaber. I have read everything of hers I could find. Have your read her memoir, The Language of Baklava. It was so good.
  
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- mnnorthwoodsgal
  
  I just found out about Language in our Global thread...another on my TBR list!
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ~ Alice Walker

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mnnorthwoodsgal

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ~Bell Hooks

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- zawadi
  
  Like this.
  
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MS Judy L (edited)

Quote of the day:
'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!!
(sorry - sent to me without crediting author. I love it, though.)

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Only with winter patience can we bring The deep desired, long-awaited spring.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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mnnorthwoodsgal

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. ~Angela Davis

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- zawadi
  
  Oh, an old favorite. Thanks.
  
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rowanthea

Sometimes you've got to let everything go—purge yourself . . . If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner

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mnnorthwoodsgal

I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here. ~Jacqueline Woodson

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- zawadi
  
  LOVE THIS!
  
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rowanthea

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby Dee

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- cpauley929
  
  Wish I could always feel this way.
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable [freedom] is because they had been deprived of it.
Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ~Azar Nafisi

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Or perhaps it is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones -- the angle of your head, the jutting of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile -- has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.--Thrity Umrigar (The Space Between Us: A Novel)

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ~Gloria Naylor

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- zawadi
  
  I thought Gloria Naylor said this?
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity.
Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations. ~Wangari Maathai

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives. ~Jill Scott

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mnnorthwoodsgal

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. ~June Jordan

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mnnorthwoodsgal

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. ~Toni Cade Bambara

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MS Judy L

“…the real definition of macho. The machismo that means strength without bullying, love without possession, and responsibility without abuse.” Maria Hinojosa speaking of her husband German Perez, artist

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MS Judy L (edited)

From the book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali born11/13/69:
“People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” [/b?
“As I myself know too well, it takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.”

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mnnorthwoodsgal

We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done . . . faith is a prerequisite of any undertaking. . . .
--Margo Jones

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mnnorthwoodsgal

A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.
--Joan Walsh Anglund

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mnnorthwoodsgal

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. ~Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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mnnorthwoodsgal

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations. ~Wangari Maathai

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mnnorthwoodsgal

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. ~Billie Holiday

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group. ~Coretta Scott King

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mnnorthwoodsgal

How do I know anything? How is it that my arms stretched out in front of me are so pale? How to I even know that they should be brown like riverbank mud, as they were when I was many goddesses with many worshipers, ruling in lands on the other side of a great, salty ocean? I used to be many, but now we are one, all squeezed together, many necks in one coffle. — Nalo Hopkinson (The Salt Roads)

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zawadi

"Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language."
~Lucille Clifton

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mnnorthwoodsgal

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. ~Audre Lorde

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. - In the Gap Between Right and Wrong - Pema Chodron

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- MS Judy L
  
  I absolutely love this!
  
  posted 9 months ago. ( reply )
She

EVery reminiscence is colored by the way things are today,and therefore by a delusive point of view.----
--------------------------------------------------Albert Einstein

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mnnorthwoodsgal

It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. ~Marian Anderson (1902-1993)

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical guise.
--Gwendolyn Brooks--

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mnnorthwoodsgal

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? … Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~1973Golda Meir

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. ~Rosa Parks

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mnnorthwoodsgal

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. ~Florida Scott-Maxwell

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mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

The beauty of the living world ... has always been uppermost in my mind ... I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could - if I didn't at least try I could never again be happy in nature ... there would be no peace for me if I kept silent. ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

The idea for her most famous book, Silent Spring, emerged, and she began writing it in 1957. It was published in 1962, and influenced President Kennedy, who had read it, to call for testing of the chemicals mentioned in the book. Carson has been called the mother of the modern environmental movement.
Web links:
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

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- MS Judy L
  
  Thanks for this. I so appreciate your almost daily quotes here. I am always inspired.
  Something that is amazing to me - we had a horrible ice storm here a few weeks ago. There were lots of birds before. I worried about them during the storm. On the first sunny day afterwards when the ice was melting off of everything, there were those birds again, cardinals, robins, bluejays, woodpeckers. I really wonder where & how those tiny little birds weathered the ice storm.
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. ~Mary Casey

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mnnorthwoodsgal

The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. ~Baroness Orczy

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. ~Corita Kent

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Palace of Illusions: A Novel)

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- zawadi
  
  Beautiful!
  
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mnnorthwoodsgal

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative. ~Zona Gale

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mnnorthwoodsgal

That eternally harassing, tantalizing future. Mystery! We will all eventually arrive there - willing or unwilling, with all our soul and body. And too often it proves to be a great despot. And so, in the end, I arrived too. Whether the future is a kind or a cruel god is, of course, its own affair. Humanity too often claps with just one hand. ~Pramoedya Ananta

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , they offered themselves as a gift. ~ Donna Jo Napoli (Bound)

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mnnorthwoodsgal

I want to get you excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now. ~Virginia Satir

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mnnorthwoodsgal

I think it's very important for people to know that those men who are scared by women who are accomplished are the kind of men accomplished women don't want. So it's nobody's loss. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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mnnorthwoodsgal

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. ~Toni Morrison

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mnnorthwoodsgal

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect. ~Nikki Giovanni

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

True intimacy with another human being can only be experienced when you have found true peace within yourself.
--Angela L. Wozniak

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mnnorthwoodsgal

A woman who is loved always has success. --Vicki Baum

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mnnorthwoodsgal

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too:
love being difficult. For one being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
--Rainer Maria Rilke

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. ~Gwendolyn Brooks

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses. ~Shirley Chisholm

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. ~Katherine Mansfield

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There's a period of life where we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
--Pearl Bailey

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mnnorthwoodsgal

She would never exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. ~Tillie Olsen

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Love has a hundred gentle ends. ~Leonora Speyer

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mnnorthwoodsgal

The point is that Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently? ~ Michelle Obama

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open. --Lillian Smith

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- zawadi
  
  Oh, I remember this one. Don't think I have it in my folder though. Thanks for posting this and a special thanks for maintaining this thread. I knew I was asking the right person.
  
  posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

It takes time, love, and support to find peace with the restless one.
--Deidra Sarault

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins. ~Wangari Maathai

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you.
Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet. ~Jamaica Kincaid

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. ~Nikki Giovanni

posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

To be wildly enthusiastic, or deadly serious--both are wrong. Both pass. One must keep ever present a sense of humor. --Katherine Mansfield

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mnnorthwoodsgal

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ~Muriel Rukeyser

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. ~Muriel Rukeyser

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Women have to join their voices with those of others to define what kind of society they want to live in here in the U.S. and with our sisters around the globe. ~Prema Mathai-Davis

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came.
--Joanna Field

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

We are living in a time of unbearable dissonance between promise and performance; between good politics and good policy; between professed and practiced family values; between racial creed and racial deed; between calls for community and rampant individualism and greed; and between our capacity to prevent and alleviate human deprivation and disease and our political and spiritual will to do so. ~Marian Wright Edelman

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Any time you sense you are getting overrun by outside influences and losing your feelings, put your attention inside your body. Relax. . ., let your breath sink low. . ., breathe in your abdomen. . . .
--Anne Kent Rush

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

For is it not true that human progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single threads united in a common effort?
--Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. ~Toni Morrison

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
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For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. ~Anzia Yezierska

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mnnorthwoodsgal

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ~Mary McLeod Bethune

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it / but there is. ~Olive Schreiner

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. ~ Maya Angelou

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If your heart catches in your throat, ask a bird how she sings.
—Cooper Edens

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
She

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean.
----Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, 1207-1273

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over. ~Miriam Makeba

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
—Margaret Fairless Barber

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~Author Unknown

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again. ~Sojourner Truth

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

So much to say. And so much not to say! Some things are better left unsaid. But so many unsaid things can become a burden.
—Virginia Mae Axline

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
—Lillian Hellman

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mnnorthwoodsgal

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. ~ Angela L. Wozniak

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mnnorthwoodsgal

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything--even poverty-you can survive it. -- Bill Cosby

posted 7 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. ~Langston Hughes

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

Living with integrity means:
Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. Barbara De Angelis

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

. . . it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.
—Gertrude Stein

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I stand before you as a tower of strength, the weight of the world on my shoulders. As you pass through my life, look, but not too close, for I fear I will expose the vulnerable me.
—Deidra Sarault

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all 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 a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be I had a mother who read to me.-- Strickland Gillilan

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture. - Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
--Ursula K. LeGuin

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. ~Marian Anderson

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
She

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."
----William James

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Your sense of what will bring happiness is so crude and blundering. Try something else as a compass. Maybe the moralists are right and happiness doesn't come from seeking pleasure and ease.
—Joanna Field

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. ~Toni Morrison(Nobel Lecture, 1993)

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Difficulties, opposition, criticism--these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm, and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
—Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us. ~Hyemeyohsts Storm

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ~Faith Ringgold

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must give up one life to enter another. -- Anatole France

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The change of one simple behavior can affect other behaviors and thus change many things.
—Jean Baer

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
—Swahili Proverb

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

[b[ We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. ~Ursula LeGuin

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ~Muriel Rukeyser

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Spiritual power can be seen in a person's reverence for life - hers and all others, including animals and nature, with a recognition of a universal life force referred to by many as God.
—Virginia Satir

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin ~

posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. —Helen Keller

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Waiting around for your prince is chancy -- he might not ever show up. And even if he does, he might not be able to protect you. Even worse, the guy who can do the best job of taking care of you may not be the one who has your heart. Learn to take care of yourself. Then you can choose your prince on your own terms -- or choose to do without one at all. -- Nancy Jane Moore

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. ~Dorothy Height

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round! Somebody said," Alice whispered, "that it's done by everybody minding their own business. Ah well! It means much the same thing."
—Lewis Carroll

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort – a sustained effort – to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings ~Pres. Obama

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

At times it may be necessary to temporarily accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good. --Margaret Mead

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~Bruce Barton

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not communicating.
—Desy Safan-Gerard

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
~ Margaret Mead ~

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
—Catherine Ponder

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

For many years I was so flexible I didn't know who I was, and now that I'm discovering who I am, I think, "OK, I know where I stand on that issue. Now on to the next one." But I have to remind myself that all issues are interrelated--no one is separate.
—Kathleen Casey Theisen

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Being alive is being creative. You need do nothing but affirm your aliveness.
—Gay Bonner

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

"...never confuse tolerance of anther's ideas, or even the acceptance of diversity in culture,
with a rejection of your own personal values. The most tolerant people ...
are generally those with the strongest personal values.And these are the people who make the strongest leaders."
U.S. Naval Corps Chaplain's Oath

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Let your conscience be your guide.
—Jiminy Cricket

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
—Amelia Earhart

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

. . . How much bondage and suffering a woman escapes when she takes the liberty of being her own physician of both body and soul.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If you attach yourself to one person, you ultimately end up having an unhealthy relationship.
—Shirley MacLaine

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Let us open our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
—O. S. Marden

posted 5 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Cultivate your garden. Let it take root in you until your thousand eyes open like violets to morning light.
—Nancy Paddock

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
—Agnes Varda

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

No one can build (her) security upon the nobleness of another person.
—Willa Cather

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments-not until it's too late.
—Agatha Christie

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
—Ellen Glasgow

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it; and when the time comes, to let it go. – Mary Oliver

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The trouble is not that we are never happy--it is that happiness is so episodical.
—Ruth Benedict

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.
That’s a phrase worth considering at every brick wall we encounter,
and at every disappointment. It’s also a reminder that failure is not
just acceptable, it’s often essential.
--Randy Pausch
The Last Lecture

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Through spontaneity we are reformed into ourselves. Freed from handed-down frames of reference, spontaneity becomes the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with a reality, explore it, and act accordingly.
—Viola Spolin

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself (Frank Maier).

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
~Donald Miller
Blue Like Jazz

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Ghandi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Ghandi

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

In summer I am very glad
We children are so small,
For we can see a thousand things
That men can't see at all.
—Laurence Alma-Tadema

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Harmony exists in difference no less than in likeness, if only the same keynote governs both parts.
—Margaret Fuller

posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
—Billie Holiday

When we stubbornly refuse to let friends or family members speak their ideas simply because we disagree with them, we risk the loss of a friend or the understanding of a family member. It is when we allow others to disagree that we take a step forward--a step that opens our ears and our hearts to all sorts of people and ideas.
How well can I accept other's opinions today?

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then you’ll do it without thinking. ~Maya Angelou

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. ~Maya Angelou

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

...the growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
—Joanna Field

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. ~ Ingrid Bengis

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.
—Jennie Jerome Churchill

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles on it. ~Margaret Fuller
Web Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/transcendentalism/margaret_fuller.html

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.... delicious ambiguity. ~Gilda Radner

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal (edited)

To those of us who knew the pain of valentines that never came and those whose
names were never called when choosing sides for basketball. —Janis Ian

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. ~Gwendolyn Brooks

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. —Kathleen Casey Theisen

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There are sounds to seasons. There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life.
—Alison Wyrley Birch

posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful unfolding in the process of becoming.
—Mary Casey

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
—Ivy Compton-Burnett

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Something can't happen every day. You get up, go to work, come back, eat again, enjoy some leisure, go back to bed. Now that's plenty for most folks.
—Ntozake Shange

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from lives of strong women.
—Ruth Benedict

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

We did not come here to fear the future, we came to shape it. -President Obama. 9/9/09

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

There were deep secrets hidden in my heart, never said for fear others would scoff or sneer.
At last I can reveal my sufferings,for the strength I once felt in silence has lost all its power.
~Deidra Sarault

posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other to belong to themselves.
—Louise Bernikow

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
—Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Women are often caught between conforming to existing standards or role definitions and exploring the promise of new alternatives. —Stanlee Phelps and Nancy Austin

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Stars have always helped me to get things into perspective . . . I tried to let the starlight heal something deep in me that hurt. ~Madeleine L'Engle

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep. ~May Sarton

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Many people are living in an emotional jail without recognizing it. —Virginia Satir

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

The great creative power is everything. If you leave out one whole chunk of it, by making God only masculine, you have to redress the balance. ~Martha Boesing

posted 1 month ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing. A creative force.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and
expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland -- Tell Me More

posted 3 weeks ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Life is mostly habit. So now's the time to figure out which habits you want to cultivate to carry you through the rest of it ~ Mary Schmich.

posted 2 weeks ago. ( reply )
mnnorthwoodsgal

Let your life speak.
-This time-honored Quaker saying, these four little words have many possible meanings: Live authentically, Let others know what matters to you, Embody your truth and values, Follow your vocation.

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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. --- Oprah Winfrey

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