Because we are all

But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. -Bucky Fuller

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. – Natalie Clifford Barney

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. – Margaret Thatcher

Can I ever know you Or you know me? – Sara Teasdale

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. -Dr. Maya Angelou

Dying is a wild night and a new road. – Emily Dickinson

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. – Mother Teresa

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. -Unknown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The medals don’t mean anything and the glory doesn’t last. It’s all about your happiness. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us -R W Emerson

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. – Mignon McLaughlin

Conceit spoils the finest genius. – Louisa May Alcott

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. – Germaine Greer

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand

Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. – Agatha Christie

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. – Ann Oakley

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. -Audrey Hepburn

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. – Virginia Woolf

You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. -Lucille Ball

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. – Mignon McLaughlin

We are all in this alone. – Lily Tomlin

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. -Margaret Thatcher

For fast-acting relief try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin

I do not need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. – Linda McCartney

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. -Socrates

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. -Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. – Mignon McLaughlin

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. —Gloria Steinem

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. – Princess of Wales Diana

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, & You are the music -unknown

Begin doing what you want to do now.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. – Barbara W. Tuchman

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved. -Jane Goodall

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. -Rita Mae Brown

I am addicted to this exercise – I never skip a day! – Jessi Lane Adams

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt

I saw a different side of us. We fell apart and never recovered. We will learn from it. – Chanda Rigby

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.- Dorothea Brande

I must admit, I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to their fellow human beings. -Margaret Mead

Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow. -Swedish Proverb

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what is empty. Empty what is full. Scratch where it itches. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Every judgement blocks the light! Mary Anne Williamson 

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things – Virginia Woolf

Flowers really do intoxicate me. – Vita Sackville-West

At the end of a matter ask, what will I learn from this to make me better? – Mary Anne Radmacher

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. -Oprah

Peace is our gift to each other. – Elie Wiesel

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

My grandmother is over eighty and still does not need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. – Henny Youngman

Do not cry when the sun is gone, because the tears would not let you see the stars. – Violeta Parra

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa

There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.

If you have never made a mistake then it means you have never tried something new.

Some people come and go, others stay and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same. – Aaliyah

Teaching is the best way to learn. -Edna Gardner Whyte

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. -Diana, Princess of Wales

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. – Helen Keller 

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. – Sydney Hook

I may be the girl next door, but you would not want to live next to me. – Elisabeth Shue

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. -Mother Teresa

If you do not like something, change it. If you can not change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. -Golda Meir

You can not test courage cautiously. – Annie Dillard