We’re here to give our best – where shall we begin?

It is a time of change, a time of opportunity. It takes courage, strength, trust and certainly a good sense of humor. Do you want to continue on with what ‘has been’ or are you ready for something new? A new way to direct your life?

Perhaps you feel the squeeze? As Anais Nin said “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Is it time for you to blossom? To take charge – not in a warrior-like way, but with the grace and power of a woman? Yeah, me too.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin ~
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Courage is like a muscle.
We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon ~
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow.
If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
~ Gail Sheehy ~
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Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach  ~
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, or more money,
in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want.
~ Margaret Young ~
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The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t have any.
~ Alice Walker ~
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Some things cannot be discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while.
~ David Whyte ~
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
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We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.
~ Emily Dickinson ~
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
~ Indira Ghandi ~
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf ~
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Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
Your words are the greatest power you have.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
~ Sonia Croquette ~
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I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott ~
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Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
~ Betty Smith ~
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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
~ Ella Fitzgerald ~
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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~ Erica Jong ~
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If you look at what you have in life,
You’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life,
You’ll never have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey ~
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You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
~ Beverly Sills ~
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The best index to a person’s character is
a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good and
b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
~ Abigail Van Buren ~
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So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,
Is all this sad world needs.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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It’s not what you call me, but what I answer to.
~ African proverb ~
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A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
~ Diane Mariechild ~
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Cut not the wings of your dreams,
for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
~ Flavia ~
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
~ Indira Gandhi ~
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You must begin to trust yourself.
If you do not, then you will forever be looking to others
to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied.
You will always be asking others what to do
and at the same time resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
~ author unknown ~
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Don’t just ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and then go and do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman ~
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Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
~ Barack Obama ~
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama ~
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
~ Albert Einstein~