| Quotes to Make You Think |
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| She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. (Tillie Olsen) |
| I have another duty equally sacred . . . My duty to myself. (Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House) |
| If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. (Glenda Jackson) |
| If you lower your standards you deserve everything you get. (Thomas Melohn) |
| If you only had six months to live, what would you do and if you're not doing that now, why not? (Stephen Thomas) |
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| I was afraid that once I started allowing my feelings to surface I wouldn't have any control I had held them in for so long, I was sure they would just burst out and I'd be like a crazy person! But you know what? I just started letting them out a little at a time and I was okay! (From The Emotionally Abused Woman) |
| It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down that spirit within - that you can being to take control (Oprah) |
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| Have you given yourself one today? |
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| This thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford) |
| As trapped, confused and afraid as you think you are, it is importnat to remember that you do indeed have choices. (Thomas Melohn) |
| Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep relationships. It promises satisfying dreams, but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the ego, but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar, but fractures a family. Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life. |
| Servicing others with our energy, creativity and life, we lose touch with our needs, our desires and the replenishing center within us. Patricia Lynn Reilly |
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| Loving yourself . . . does not mean being self absored or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion. Margo Anand |
| It is easy to become so immersed in motherhood and its responsibilities that a woman's total identity if MOM. Her interests and hobbies and other things that nurture her get shelved. She gives and gives, and suddenly wakes up depressed and wonders why. Why? She's neglected the things that feed her soul. Andrea Alban Gosline |
| We women have the abilities of a master juggler. We can survive while keeping a heroic number of balls in the air, but do we really thrive while doing so? Sue Patton Thoele |
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