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I LOVE quotes.

The quotes listed below reflect the inspiration, insights, and wisdom that have influenced me in my writing.  I share them here to provide a glimpse into the some of the messages that the books embody, and to share some positive and powerful messages to each of you!  

Another way to use this page: Because there are a lot of quotes here...
one idea is to close your eyes, scroll, and see where you land.  
Focus your attention on one and read the first quote that pops out to you.
 






There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world 
than a transformation of the way we raise our children. 
– Marianne Williamson






There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
-Victor Hugo






When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.
-Paolo Coelho






The journey of a lifetime is being who we are.
-Joseph Campbell






What lies before us and what lies behind us
are small matters compared to what lies within us.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson







We love because it's the only true adventure.
-Nikki Giovanni







Live from the heart of yourself.
-Oprah Winfrey







You mustn't be afraid to dream a bit bigger, darling.
-Eames, from the movie Inception






All that we are is the result of what we have thought.  
The mind is everything.  What we think, we become.
-Buddha






You are what your deepest desire is.
As is your desire, so is your intention.
As is your intention, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed.
As is your deed, so is your destiny.

-Upanishads






It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
-Paolo Coelho






Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.






Everything that happens in the universe starts with intention. 
-Deepak Chopra






Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
-NoFear clothing company advertisement






It is not our differences that divide us.  
It's our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those difference. 
-Audre Lorde






I change myself.  I change the world.
-Gloria Anzaldua






You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.
-Louise L. Hay






Compassion is the natural expression of wisdom.
-Tara Sophia Mohr






Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
-Marianne Williamson






DON'T MISTAKE POLITENESS FOR LACK OF STRENGTH.
​-SONIA SOTAMAYOR






All is well.
-Louise Hay






If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

-14th Dalai Lama






And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln






A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.  
-Maya Angelou






I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. 
These three are your greatest treasures.   
-Lao Tzu






When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, 
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.  
-Audre Lorde







If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is
to be different yourself. 

– Norman Vincent Pearle






Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. 
-Albert Einstein






Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you
where there were only walls. 

-Joseph Campbell






Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson






Whether you think you can or can’t either way you are right. 
-Henry Ford






The best and most beautiful things in the world can't be seen or touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
-Hellen Keller






Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
-Audrey Hepburn 






Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale






You must do the things you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt 






You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future,
or a different past.
-Richard Bach 






On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.  
-Paul Ricoeur




Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life.  
Reading shaped my dreams and even more
reading helped me make my dreams come true.
-ruth bader ginsberg




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The whole purpose of your life is to become the person you were meant to be.
-OPRAH WINFREY



Accept this moment as if you have chosen it.
-ECKHART TOLLE



Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside of you.
-RUMI



Live a life driven more by curiosity than fear, that is creative living.
-ELIZABETH GILBERT



Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-Aristotle




In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus



I paint flowers so they will not die.
-Frida Khalo




Believe that everything is rigged in your favor.
-Rumi




May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
-Nelson Mandela




To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
​-Jill Bolte Taylor


















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