Sometimes what seems like surrender isn’t surrender at all. It’s about what’s going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true is far, far greater.
– Nicholas Evans
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.
A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction is better than the reality.
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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
I know that God won’t give me more trouble than I can handle … but
sometimes I wish he wouldn’t trust me so much.
– attributed to Mother Teresa