Always be a first

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Ask & you shall receive.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. – Marianne Williamson

I am a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress. – Michelle Rodriguez

Every thought we think is creating our future -Louise L. Hay

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller

We are all in this alone. – Lily Tomlin

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. – Helen Keller

Life isn’t measured by the breathes we take but the moments that take our breath away.

It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. -Jane Fonda

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light the hearts of people. – Mother Teresa

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. – Carnegie andrew

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -Marianne Williamson

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -Willa Cather

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. – Julian Green

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. – Princess Diana

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – Emily Dickinson

We could never learn to be brave & patient, if there were only joys in the world. -Helen Keller

Every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom. —Alice Walker

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

Do not settle for a relationship that would not let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable – Kathleen Norris

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. -Lucille Ball

It was like having an eight month hangover! – Debra Stephenson

Great opportunities to help others seldom come but small ones surround us every day. – Sally Koch

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. -Erica Jong

Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt

I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it. – Marilyn Monroe

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others. – Marcia Wieder

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body; fairly, squarely, by the rules–to win. -Bela Karolyi

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. – Erika Cosby

Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. -Unknown

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

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

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. – Katherine Anne Porter

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. – Marie Chapian

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

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. -Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou

Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it. -Oprah

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

There is much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. – Diana Trilling

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

I would rather die than do something, which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will. -Joan of Arc

It upsets women to be or not to be, stared at hungrily. – Mignon McLaughlin

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. -Lucille Ball

I love my father as the stars – he is a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. – Adabella Radici

I have been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. – Pierre Auguste Renoir

Something that is of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of Peace . – Annie Lennox

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. – Anne Rice

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

When I let go of what’s not meant to be, I clear a path for good stuff to find me!

Hold on, hold on to yourself, for this is going to hurt like hell. – Sarah McLachlan

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. – Anne Sophie Swetchine

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline & creativity is daring to dare. -Maya Angelou

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -Eleanor Roosevelt

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield

Dwell in possibility. – Emily Dickinson

Oh, my goodness I never thought I had be here in my whole life growing up in Tennessee. – Reese Witherspoon

Libraries are the one institution you should not rip off. – Barbara Kingsolver

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin. – Susan Partnow

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. – Anne Roiphe

A couple of the gangsters recognized me and said, get him – Eddie Compass

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank

I have been rich and I have been poor. Rich is better. – Sophie Tucker

I did not want to be knocked over by a car and have my obituary talk only about prime suspect. – Helen Mirren

My boyfriend’s undecided. He will just have to get over it. – Adahlia Suicide

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

Shadows can not see themselves in the mirror of the sun. – Evita Peron