“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
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“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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