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  • #1
    Goldie Hawn
    “If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”
    Goldie Hawn

  • #2
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #3
    You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
    “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
    Mary Tyler Moore

  • #4
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
    Chimamanda Adichie

  • #5
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #6
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

  • #7
    bell hooks
    “Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center more than 10 years ago. It was my hope at the time that it would become a common definition everyone would use. I liked this definition because it did not imply that men were the enemy. By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult. It is also broad enough to include an understanding of systemic institutionalized sexism. As a definition it is open-ended. To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.”
    Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

  • #8
    Anne Sexton
    “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #9
    Anne Sexton
    “As for me, I am a watercolor.
    I wash off.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #10
    Anne Sexton
    “I am alone here in my own mind.
    There is no map
    and there is no road.
    It is one of a kind
    just as yours is.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #11
    Anne Sexton
    “Everyone in me is a bird
    I am beating all my wings”
    Anne Sexton, Love Poems

  • #12
    Anne Sexton
    “Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
    It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
    give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
    give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
    your tears to the land. To love another is something
    like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
    into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #13
    Anne Sexton
    “Only my books anoint me,
    and a few friends,
    those who reach into my veins.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #14
    Anne Sexton
    “Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #15
    Anne Sexton
    “I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
    Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

  • #16
    Anne Sexton
    “Take your foot out of the graveyard,
    they are busy being dead.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #17
    Anne Sexton
    “But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #18
    Anne Sexton
    Words

    Be careful of words,
    even the miraculous ones.
    For the miraculous we do our best,
    sometimes they swarm like insects
    and leave not a sting but a kiss.
    They can be as good as fingers.
    They can be as trusty as the rock
    you stick your bottom on.
    But they can be both daisies and bruises.
    Yet I am in love with words.
    They are doves falling out of the ceiling.
    They are six holy oranges sitting in my lap.
    They are the trees, the legs of summer,
    and the sun, its passionate face.
    Yet often they fail me.
    I have so much I want to say,
    so many stories, images, proverbs, etc.
    But the words aren't good enough,
    the wrong ones kiss me.
    Sometimes I fly like an eagle
    but with the wings of a wren.
    But I try to take care
    and be gentle to them.
    Words and eggs must be handled with care.
    Once broken they are impossible
    things to repair.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #19
    Brené Brown
    “Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
    Brene Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

  • #20
    Brené Brown
    “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
    Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

  • #21
    Brené Brown
    “To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.”
    Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

  • #22
    Brené Brown
    “Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.”
    Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

  • #23
    Brené Brown
    “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
    Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi



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