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#1

“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational, inspirational-life, the-strength-of-a-woman, true-strength, wisdom-quotes, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-strength

775 likes

#2

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
― Pema Chodron

tags: buddhism, shambhala

784 likes

#3

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering

1177 likes

#4

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
― Pema Chodron

442 likes

#5

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...”
― Sophie Kinsella

tags: humour, inspirational, lifestyle, women-s-strength

639 likes

#6

“We make the things that matter, matter.”
― Teresa R. Funke, Dancing in Combat Boots: And Other Stories of American Women in World War II

tags: inspirational, women-s-strength, world-war-ii

12 likes

#7

“Your inner strength will lead you into a victorious future”
― Sl Jones, Woman on Fire: 30-Day Journal & Guide to Break the Chain!

tags: courage-fear-inspirational, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage, women-s-strength

2 likes

#8

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

5515 likes

#9

“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: self-assessment

456 likes

#10

“Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.”
― Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living

tags: essence, self-care, strength, strength-of-character, woman-s-secrets, women-s-strength

8 likes

#11

“I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

tags: educational, female-author, female-education, inspirational-quotes, women, women-education, women-s-fiction, women-s-rights, women-s-strength, yefon-the-red-necklace

1 likes

#12

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

tags: awakening, buddhism, mindfulness

498 likes

#13

“Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: crazy-girl, inner-strength, inspirational-quotes, overcoming-fear, overcoming-insecurities, women-s-inspirational, women-s-strength

128 likes

#14

“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

tags: art, birth, discovery, feminism, feminist, intelligence, invention, men-and-women, woman-s-strength, woman-to-woman, womanhood, women, women-s-rights, women-s-strength

10 likes

#15

“The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.”
― Jayne Castel, Dark Under the Cover of Night

tags: fate-destiny, women-s-inspirational, women-s-strength

3 likes

#16

“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”
― Bell Hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

tags: feminism, love, self-love, women-s-strength

117 likes

#17

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

459 likes

#18

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”
― Pema Chodron

331 likes

#19

“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

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

9453 likes

#20

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4311 likes

#21

“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

tags: dance, inspirational

4470 likes

#22

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

6309 likes

#23

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4273 likes

#24

“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”
― Jalaludin Rumi

197 likes

#25

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165297 likes

#26

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

3416 likes

#27

“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
― Rumi

6 likes

#28

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

tags: wisdom

3152 likes

#29

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society

1786 likes