In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
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