In celebration of International Women’s Day, here’s a small sampling of my favorite wise thoughts shared by women.
You can only be truly accomplished at something you love. Do not make money the goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. All the other tangible rewards will come as a result. ~ Maya Angelou
A disgruntled dreamer is a risky mentor. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. ~ Julia Cameron
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~ Coco Chanel
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Agatha Christie
I knew that to be at home in the world was the way to grow rich. The way I wanted to be rich. ~ Marlena deBlasi
You can’t test courage cautiously. ~ Annie Dillard
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~ Anna Freud
Do not surround yourself with people who do not have dreams. ~ Nikki Giovanni
If you pay attention to your dreams, they will begin to speak to you. ~ Natalie Goldberg
To practice means to perform, in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ~ Martha Graham
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. ~Jean Kerr
There are no medals at the end of life for long-term sufferers. ~ JoAnn Larsen
It takes no courage at all to do something if you are unaware of the danger. The real test of one’s courage is to risk all when the danger is known. ~ Eda LeShan
Sometimes I think creativity is magic. It’s not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. ~ Maya Lin
The purpose of craft is not so much to make beautiful things as it is to become beautiful inside while you are making those things. ~ Susan Gordon Lydon
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for that. ~ Toni Morrison
We evolve at the rate of the tribe we’re plugged into. ~ Caroline Myss
Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back: A new life, a new friends, a new love. ~ Anais Nin
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. ~ Marsha Norman
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. ~ Mary Oliver
An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that’s the start of something. ~ Patricia T. O’Conner
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ~ Dolly Parton
If nothing ever goes wrong, the chances are nothing ever goes at all. ~ Charlotte Paul
Inspiration is very polite. She knocks softly and then goes away if we don’t answer. ~ Mary Pipher
It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily. ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life was very much part of the human spirit. What I didn’t fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart. ~ Anita Roddick
I never set out to make a mark. I set out to do the thing I love most in the world and see if I was any good at it. ~ J.K. Rowling
When you think your dreams are impossible, that makes them invisible. ~ Barbara Sher
No one ever really asked me what my dreams were. Which was not such a bad thing. It allowed me the freedom to pursue my interests without interference or supervision. ~ Alice Steinbach
When I do and say what everyone else says and does, then no one calls me irresponsible. But at that time, I am. ~ Barry Stevens
What I discovered is that when you make the time and space for what you long to do, everything else shifts to accommodate it. It never works the other way around. If you wait until there’s time to do what you want, you’ll be waiting until your eighty-fifth birthday. ~ Sarah Susanka
Opportunities are like pole beans. You have to keep picking them so more can grow. ~ Hope Wallis
If you’re busy regretting the past, then a new future can’t come in. ~ Marianne Williamson
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