"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and become." *Ursula K. Le Guin*
"I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experiance." *Sharon Stone*
"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within." *Helen Keller*
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." *Rosalind Russel*
"We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true and serious." *Brenda Ueland*
"It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either." *Erich Fromm*
"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority." *Tom Hopkins*
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." *Louisa May Alcott*
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." *Confucius*
"All life represents a risk, and the more lovingly we live our lives the more risks we take." *M. Scott Peck*
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." *Mark Twain*
"Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies." *Aristotle*
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." *Erica Jong*
"It's terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day." *Anne Morrow Lindbergh*
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." *Judy Garland*
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt." *Max Lerner*
"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes." *Victor Hugo*
"Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy." *Melody Beattie*
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." *Joy Baker Priest*
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." *Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche*
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." *Mary Tyler Moore*
"When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." *Alexander Graham Bell*
"Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage." *Anais Nin*
