"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't." -Eleanor
Roosevelt

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
better." -Samuel Beckett

"If joy makes life beautiful, sorrow lets you know how beautiful life is"

"Tears are like rain, they loosen up our soil so we can grow in diffrent directions"

"Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems dispopulated"

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" -Ann Landers

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."-Arabic Parable

I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems
don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the
best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." -W. H.
Auden

"The most damaging phrase in
the language is, "It's always
been done that way"."

*Admiral Grace Hopper
(1906-1992)

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am," and those who come into a room and say, "Ah, there you are."

Frederick Collins

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Whitman

"Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."

Nikita Koloff

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-- Robert Brault

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of
their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of
these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the
only trustworthy one is the last.
~~John Ruskin

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.
-- Anonymous

I'm often disturbed by the notion of the so-called glass ceiling, but you know, glass can be broken. I've never liked hearing people say, "You can't do this" or "You can't do that." The point, though, is not to just say [you can do it]. It's important to be prepared to act and sacrifice; to accept that if this is what you want, just wishing it would happen is not enough. You've got to follow through and take the necessary steps to make it happen.
~~ Reginald F. Lewis (1942-1993), legendary Wall Street financier who completed the landmark $985 million acquisition of Beatrice International Foods in 1987. TLC Beatrice International remains the only black owned company to break the billion-dollar mark in annual revenues peaking at $2.2 billion in 1996.

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams