"What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do."
Sanaya Roman, writer
"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
Jean Cocteau, writer
"When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for."
Coco Chanel, fashion designer
"...if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong, writer
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller, activist
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
Oprah Winfrey, presenter/actress/producer,writer
"...if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton, singer/actress
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
Katherine Graham, publisher
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
Barbara Winter, writer
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: act as if it were impossible to fail."
Dorothea Brande, writer
"Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer
"And no-one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves. The Goddess awakens in our hearts before she awakens in the world."
Marianne Williamson, writer
"No-one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do."
Karin Ireland, writer
"Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another."
Joan C. Harvey, writer
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Marianne Williamson, writer
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt, activist
"Surround yourself with people who are going to lift you higher."
Oprah Winfrey
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker, writer/activist
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."
Wanda Carter, writer
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Virginia Woolf
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
Helen Keller, activist
"As we give fully, unafraid to let others know the truth about ourselves, we receive unexpected rewards from unexpected sources."
Helene Lerner-Robbins, writer
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Marilyn vos Savant, writer
"You may disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills, opera singer
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."
Lisa Alther, novelist
"If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."
Shirley Hufstedler, lawyer
