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compiled by Nan Fischer

"We cannot grow a lotus without mud." Thich Nhat Hanh

"god is not
the voice in the whirlwind
god is the whirlwind."
Margaret Atwood

"The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism." M. P. Follett

"True forgiveness includes total acceptance." Catherine Marshall

"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment." Ellis Peters

"A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least." Katharine
Hepburn

"By our errors we see deeper into life." Ralph Iron

"You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free." Shere Hite

"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."  Robert Mirabal

"What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."  Mary Pickford

"People are like tea bags. You find out how strong they are when you put them in hot water."  Anonymous

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."  Stephen Covey

"Never, my heart, is there enough of living." Leonie Adams

"The serpent never stops chattering, and we never stop believing him." Gerald Epstein

"Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating." Ray Bradbury

"Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?" Frances Marion

"A friend can tell you things you can't tell yourself." Frances Ward Weller

"If people are going to get back into balance, one of the things they have to do is seek the truth. They have to start really speaking the truth themselves, and that's a difficult thing to do. The way it is now in the world, we don't mind lying." John Peters
(Slow Turtle) WAMPANOAG

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me." Simone de Beauvoir

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally." Flannery O'Connor

"Any truth creates a scandal." Marguerite Yourcenar

"It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change." Sheila Ballantyne

"If it is to be, it is up to me." Shirley Hutton

"An 'I' without a body is a possibility.  But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible." Edith Stein

"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." Corita Kent

"Getting lost is a matter of perspective." The Tao of Women

"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1712)

"Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old." Shelagh Delaney

"Where there is a woman there is magic." Ntozake Shange

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.  It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."  Ellen Goodman

"Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern."  Marguerite Yourcenar   

"A mother is not a person to lean upon, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."  Dorothy Canfield   

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."  Erma Bombeck

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."  Ursula K. Le Guin

"Those who don't enjoy their own spirit, sensuality, personality, and preferences are never as beautiful as they could be."  Mama Gena

"We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't."  Frank A. Clark

"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Space and time are not conditions in which we live, they are modes in which we think." Albert Einstein

"Is it possible to be totally partial?" George Carlin

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." Henry David Thoreau

 "The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception." Celia Thaxter

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." Erich Fromm

"Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself." Sartre

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." Samuel Johnson

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." Duke Ellington

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose." Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."Sophocles

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