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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .”
― Anaïs Nin

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Life after Death

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.

“Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.”
― Bruce H. Lipton, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth

“If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital ”
― Bruce H. Lipton

“We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.”
― Bruce H. Lipton

“Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.”
― Bruce H. Lipton

“If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don't worry, there is still time”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Failure is a greater teacher than success”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“You are one of my nicest thoughts.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

“I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”
― Jimi Hendrix

“What's next?”
― Martin Sheen