Wise Women Quotes - Page 3

• How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2013

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• Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Fighting, Tears

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 05, 2016

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• The real work is in the Heart:
  Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
  Then it needs no Friend.

  Rabia Basri

  Inspirational, Friends, Wise

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• So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

  Ayn Rand

  I Love You, Spiritual, Independent

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• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Night, Decision

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• A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

  Suze Orman

  Wise, Easy, Know How

  Suze Orman (2007). “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny”, p.52, Spiegel & Grau

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• The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Cute, Inspiring

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• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Adversity, Writing

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• If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Fit, Obligation, Company

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Fearless

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Wise, Husband

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• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

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• I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's
  a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Wise, Moving, Responsibility

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

  Ella Maillart

  Good Life, Desert, Green

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• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Being Yourself, Laughter

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• Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

  Maya Angelou

  Want, Telling The Truth, Leading Me

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

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• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Motivational Sports, Women

  "The New Edge in Sports Performance and Results" by Howard Falco, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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