"Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet."

-- Letitia Baldrige

#Preparation Quotes #Watches Quotes #World Quotes

“When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”
“I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.”
“I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.”
“...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.”
“It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.”
“When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.”

You may also like:

Amy Vanderbilt
Author
Bill Moyers
Former White House Press Secretary
Clare Boothe Luce
Former U.S. Congresswoman
Emily Post
Author
Jackie Kennedy
Former First Lady of the United States
Joseph Campbell
Writer
Judith Martin
Journalist
Nancy Friday
Author
Malachy McCourt
Actor