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Hello all! I've been abundantly blessed by my virtual coffee chats with so many of you in this wonderful forum on Books and Literature! (The Relationship forum is fun too, but this is where inspiration comes from... "the stuff dreams are made of" )
Anyways... We all have favorite quotes, quotes that have touched a chord in our hearts and minds, quotes that have influenced our decisions, inspired us to go that extra mile, give us courage to face the day, and shown us what real living is like.
Lets share these divine inspirations with our little world here - on this little posting. I'll start with one of my all-time favorites....
Being a star-gazer myself and being the proud owner of a tempestuous personal history, this is one of my favorites - it reminds me that no matter what is swirling around me at a given time, I can get through it.
"The most tempestuous wind cannot disturb the quiet of the stars."
Literary wishes and Shakespearean dreams,
HistorianChick
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ~ Bella Abzug
"There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women."
~ Kofi Annan
"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
~ Susan B. Anthony
"Independence is happiness." ~ Susan B. Anthony
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." ~ Susan B. Anthony
"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand." ~ Susan B. Anthony
"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
~ Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958),
"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
~ Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)
"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
~ Margaret Fuller
This is one I have forced myself to live by lately...good when you feel that you are overrun with negative thoughts.
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
I wish I could quote the entire essay "Self-Reliance" by Emerson, but I think it would be a bit lengthy. If you haven't read it, read it. Written in 1841 it's lessons are well tought even today.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841
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
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