"I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do."

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Betty Ford

#Independent Quotes #Independent Women Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.”
“As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.”
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
“To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.”
“I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.”
“Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
“All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.”
“The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.”

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