Strong, empowering *Inspirations* from strong, empowered people!
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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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
- Lucille Ball

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish!
And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

The self confidence one builds from achieving
difficult things and accomplishing goals
is the most beautiful thing of all.
- Madonna

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too.
Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
- Diane Sawyer

Never bend your head. Hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
- Unknown

What do we live for, if not to make life easier for others?
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

It wouldn't take nothin' for my journey now.
- Maya Angelou

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love,
which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw

 

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. 
- Martin Luther  King

 "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, 
 life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." 

 "I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by
the way he/she handles these three things:
a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
 
 "I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents,
 you'll miss them when they're gone from your life." 
 
 "I've learned that making a "living"
is not the same thing as "making a life."
 
 "I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance." 
 
 "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's 
 mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back." 
 
 "I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart,
 I usually make the right decision." 
 
 "I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one." 
 
 "I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.  
 People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back."
 
 "I've learned that I still have a lot to learn." 
 
 "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget 
 what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
 -Maya Angelou

A Fearless Woman
Is a Woman On A Mission
She is:
Effecting change beyond herself,
Educating others about an issue, cause or situation
Inspiring others to think, speak or act
Taking risks - personally, professionally or otherwise
- on behalf of an issue or cause
Demonstrating that every individual
Does make a difference
and can collectively
Change the world!
-Anonymous

You're  braver than you believe, and stronger
than you seem, and smarter than you  think.
- Christopher Robin to Pooh
(A.A. Milne)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Harri Seldon
Isaac Asimov Foundation

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I always have two lists: things I'm happy about and things I'm not.
It's my choice which list I focus on.

Anne Arthur

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
 What is not part of ourselves does not disturb us.
 
Hermann Hesse

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

You will forget your misery;
you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

Job 11:16

I never failed.
I just discovered 1,000 ways in which the light bulb would not work.
Every attempt brought me closer to the knowledge of how it would.

Thomas Edison