quotes
"I'm selfish, I'm impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." -George Bernard Shaw
Buddhist Forgiveness Prayer
If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness.
If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusions I forgive them.
And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive
I forgive myself for that.
For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions I forgive myself.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
eleanor roosevelt
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
"being bored is not allowed."
eloise (the little girl who lives in the plaza hotel)
"Let us be elegant or die! --Amy"
- Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
"look well of to-day- for it is the life of life. in its brief course lie all the variations and realities of your life- the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow a vision. but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. for time is but a scene in the eternal drama. so, look well of today, and let that be your resolution as you awake each morning and salute the new dawn. each day is born by the recurring miracle of dawn, and each night reveals the celestial harmony of the stars. seek not death in error of your life, and pull not upon yourself destruction by the work of your hands."
"excercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine." -lola montez
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
"don't let the sunshine spoil your rain."
-oscar the grouch
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings
My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage-each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun-what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!
- November 14, 1881: Letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to Franz Overbeck
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." -George Bernard Shaw
Buddhist Forgiveness Prayer
If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness.
If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusions I forgive them.
And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive
I forgive myself for that.
For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions I forgive myself.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
eleanor roosevelt
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
"being bored is not allowed."
eloise (the little girl who lives in the plaza hotel)
"Let us be elegant or die! --Amy"
- Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
"look well of to-day- for it is the life of life. in its brief course lie all the variations and realities of your life- the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow a vision. but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. for time is but a scene in the eternal drama. so, look well of today, and let that be your resolution as you awake each morning and salute the new dawn. each day is born by the recurring miracle of dawn, and each night reveals the celestial harmony of the stars. seek not death in error of your life, and pull not upon yourself destruction by the work of your hands."
"excercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine." -lola montez
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
"don't let the sunshine spoil your rain."
-oscar the grouch
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings
My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage-each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun-what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!
- November 14, 1881: Letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to Franz Overbeck