"For respect to come to you, you must respect yourself first.

And for you to respect yourself, you've got to make contact with that part in you that is worthy of respect.

Not your will, but a deeper part of your being."

~ Ram Dass

"Sitting and waiting is such an awful way to live... Creating projects is really what's happening these days. The chance to participate in your own career is a lot more exciting than just hoping that it all works out."

~ Greta Gerwig

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone."

~ Audrey Hepburn

"Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners that most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him."

~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

"The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

~ Lady Bird Johnson

"Do not listen to people who think they have all the answers. Nobody is your savior, except you and perhaps a God you do or do not pray to. Read things that make you feel, that challenge what you think you know. Get fired up. Push yourself beyond those ten feet in front of you. Let yourself be pissed the fuck off. Maybe if you get angry enough, you'll change your damn life. Maybe if you let yourself be consumed by envy or anger or frustration or disappointment, you will finally do what it takes to make yourself happy."

~ Jamie Varon

"I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen... Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile."

~ Hellen Mirren

"We don't receive wisdom; we discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for user spare us."

~ Marcel Proust

"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."

~ Dalai Lama

"If you have all your wishes fulfilled, you have what could be called psychological entropy, that is death in an equable tepidity."

~ C. G. Jung

"If a seed has to grow with a rock on top of it, or in deep shade, or without enough water, it won't unfold into a healthy full-sized plant. It will try – hard – because the drive to become what you were meant to be is incredibly powerful. But at best it will become a sort of ghost of what it could be: pale, undersized, drooping... In the age of ecology, we ourselves are the only creature we would ever expect to flourish in an environment that does not give us what we need! We wouldn't order a spider to spin an exquisite web in empty space, or a seed to sprout on a bear desktop. And yet that is exactly what we have been demanding of ourselves."

~ Barbara Sher, Wishcraft

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” 

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés