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  • #1
    Mary Karr
    “If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.”
    Mary Karr, Lit

  • #2
    Aberjhani
    “Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
    Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

  • #3
    With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of
    “With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
    and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.”
    Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

  • #4
    L.J. Smith
    “She had the feeling that she would be different from now on, that she could never go back and be the same person she had been.

    So who am I now?
    Somebody fierce, I think.
    Somebody who’d enjoy running through the darkness, underneath stars bright as miniature suns, and maybe even hunt deer.
    Somebody who can laugh and death”
    L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

  • #5
    Elizabeth S.  Eiler
    “Women have always cradled within their bodies secret mysteries of life, death, and rebirth and the healing, grounding, and balancing powers of our Mother in the Earth. We have held these mysteries sacred within us as we would carry babies in our wombs.”
    Elizabeth Eiler, Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine

  • #6
    Nancy A. Collins
    “She pulled herself through the narrow window into the darkness, midwife to her own rebirth.”
    Nancy A. Collins, Sunglasses After Dark

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I died as mineral and became a plant,
    I died as plant and rose to animal,
    I died as animal and I was human,
    Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
    Yet once more I shall die human,
    To soar with angels blessed above.
    And when I sacrifice my angel soul
    I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
    As a human, I will die once more,
    Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
    And when I let my angel body go,
    I shall be more than mortal mind can know.”

    ― Rumi”
    Rumi, Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections From the Wisdom of Rumi

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    Steve Maraboli
    “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
    Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within

  • #12
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #13
    Benjamin Hoff
    “There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.”
    Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

  • #14
    Ray Bradbury
    “We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

  • #15
    Seth Adam Smith
    “You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
    Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

  • #16
    “Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, 'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' Keep that in mind.”
    Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

  • #17
    Anaïs Nin
    “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
    Anais Nin

  • #18
    Idowu Koyenikan
    “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”
    Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

  • #19
    “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
    Hafiz

  • #20
    Shannon L. Alder
    “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #21
    Idowu Koyenikan
    “Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
    I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
    I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
    I can do all things that I commit myself to.
    No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
    I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
    I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
    I am moving forward daily.
    Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
    Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

  • #22
    RuPaul
    “When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
    RuPaul

  • #23
    “COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

    I was born the day
    I thought:
    What is?
    What was?
    And
    What if?

    I was transformed the day
    My ego shattered,
    And all the superficial, material
    Things that mattered
    To me before,
    Suddenly ceased
    To matter.

    I really came into being
    The day I no longer cared about
    What the world thought of me,
    Only on my thoughts for
    Changing the world.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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    Idowu Koyenikan
    “Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.”
    Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

  • #26
    Michael A. Singer
    “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
    Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

  • #27
    Tite Kubo
    “If I were rain,
    That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
    Could I join two hearts as well?”
    Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

  • #28
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #29
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.
    And to make an end is to make a beginning."

    (Little Gidding)”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #30
    Danielle Kloberdanz
    “The path of spiritual awakening involves uncovering the values and ideas that are authentic to you, regardless of what others think.”
    Danielle Kloberdanz, Inner Compass Mom



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