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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach is a great book for women of all ages. There are inspirational quotes and stories that help women reflect to create a more productive and balanced life. We often share some of these quotes on twitter. (We have not included every quote.)
Each month there is a theme that drives the quotes and essays. We hope to share these quotes with you in the upcoming months. We hope you enjoy. If you like them please share with others and visit back for more inspirational quotes for women.
We hope to have a complete list of quotes in the next few weeks. Enjoy!
January
“And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
- “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston
- “You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.” Joe E. Lewis
- simple, adj. 1: without embellishment; 2. clarity of form and thought; fundamental abundance, n. 1: an ample quantity, profusion; 2: wealth; 3. plentifulness simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2. a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment
- “When you perform… you are yourself – larger and more potent, more beautiful. you are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours, nightly.” Agnes de Mille
- “Many women today feel a sadness we cannot name. Though we accomplish much of what we set out to do, we sense that something is missing in our lives and -fruitlessly – search “out there” for the answers. What is often wrong is that we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self.” Emily Hancock
- “The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman].” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one’s life.” Joanna Field
- “There is a no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Be being happy we sow anonymous benefits on the world.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “In my life’s chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.” Hannah Senesh
- “Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Hellen Keller
- “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
- “The eyes of my eyes are opened.” e.e. cummings
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” Melody Beattie
- “‘Tis a gift to be simple, ‘Tis a gift to be free, Tis a gift to come down Where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in a place that’s right, ‘twill be in the valley of love and delight.” 19th Century Shaker Hymn
- “Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.” Pearl Buck
- “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.” Artur Schnabel
- “You agree – I’m sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.” Agatha Christie
- “Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.” Russell Conwell
- “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie
- “Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense she has always been the pioneer.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.” Katherine Mansfield
- “Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.” Emmet Fox
- “Take the gentle path.” George Herbert
- “I will write myself into well-being.” Nancy Mair
- “Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study.” Jessamyn West
- “If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.” Jessamyn West
- “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21
- “Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.” Antonio Porchia
- “Each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities.” Woman’s Home Companion December 1915
February
- “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, I loafe and invite my soul…” Walt Whitman
- “Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.” Alice Koller
- “To love onself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” Oscar Wilde
- “My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.” Robert Browning
- “What I mean by living to one’s self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.” William Hazlitt
- “I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.” Louise Nevelson
- “Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.” Agnes De Mille
- “Inside of you there’s an artist you don’t know about.” Jalai Ud-Din Rumi
- “It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” Somerset Maugham
- “Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.” Paul Johannes Tillich
- “Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “A sobering thought; what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my potential?” Jane Wagner
- “Where there is great love there are always miracles.” Willa Cather
- “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.” Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.” Fiona MacLeod
- “Sometimes a person has to go back, – to have a sense, an understanding or that’s gone to make them – before they can go forward.” Paule Marshall
- “Maybe being oneself is always and acquired taste.” Patricia Hampl
- “God is in the details.” Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
- “Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey… It is the journey to find yourself.” Katherine Sharp
- “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Let knowledge grow from more to more.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “I don’t believe; I know.” Carl Jung
- “If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.” Joseph Campbell
March
“It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before… there is a blessing in the air.” William Wordsworth
- “God grant us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed; courage to change the things that should be changed.” R Niebuhr
- “Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.” Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “Anybody can observe the Sabbath but making it holy sure takes the rest of the week.” Alice Walker
- “The well of Providence is deep. It’s the buckets we bring to it that are small.” Mary Webb
- ”Hope” is the thing with feathers – that perches the soul.” Emily Dickinson
- “I pray you… your play needs no excuse. Never excuse.” William #Shakespeare
- “A little of what you fancy does you good.” Marie Lloyd
- “Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” Doris Mortman
- “So many women just don’t know how great they really are. The come to us all vogue outside and vague inside.” Mary Kay Ash
- “The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.” Jessamyn West
- “If you resolve to work each day for self-realization, your whole world.” Pond’s Cold Cream Advertisement 1947
- “Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within.” Mary Lou Cook
- “I did not lose myself all at once.” Amy Tan
- “Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.” Julia Cameron
- “If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you’d best begin with the Little Answers about your body.” G Sheehan
- “If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?” Dame Edith Sitwell
- “We are the hero of our own story.” Mary McCarthy
- “Repose is a quality too many undervalue.” Good House Keeping 1947
- “My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.” Nancy Collins
- “I was thought to be “stuck up.” I wasn’t. i was just sure of myself.” Better Davis
- “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland
- “Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple.” Sue Bender
- “It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.” Sue Bender
- “To choose clothes, either in a store or at home, is to define and describe ourselves.”
- “It is never to late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
- “It’s never to late – in fiction or in life – to revise.” Nancy Thayer
- “I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.” Gilda Radner
- “Style moves by fits and starts and is ocassionally glorious.” Kennedy Fraser
- “Fashion fades. Only style remains.” Coco Chanel
April
“April, the Angel of the Months.” Vuta Sackville-West
- “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart & to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside you.” Judith Jamison
- “The should should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson
- “Inside myself is a place where I live alone & that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” Pearl Buck
- “ For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.” Christian LaCroix
- “Undoubtedly we become what we envision.” Claude M. Bristol
- “Adornment is never anything but a reflection of the self.”
- “Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.” Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance
- “I will tell you what I learned myself. For me a long, 5-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.” Brenda Ueland
- “Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.” Edith Wharton
- “The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” Yves Saint Lauren
- “Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.” Edward Carpenter
- “There might be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath
- “Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Nothing can cure the soul but the sense, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde
- “The sense of smell. almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it’s a pity that we use it so little.” Rachel Carson
- “I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.” Alain-Rene Le Sage
- “The greatest thing a human does in this world is to see something…to see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.” J. Ruskin
- “With stammering lips and insufficient sounds, I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.’ Francis Thompson
- “Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain, but simply points the way.” Florence Scovel Shinn
- “Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.” Rosalind Russell
- “The most radiant woman in the room is one full of life and experience.” Sharon Stone
May
“Let all the joys be as the month of May.” Francis Quarled
- “Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish.” Anne De Lenclos
- “Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink….” Rumer Godden
- “Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyonds its world a heaven. Know then that world exists for you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A house is who you are, not who you ought to be.” Jill Robinson
- “Your house is your home only when you feel you have jurisdiction over the space.” Joan Kron
- “Home is the definition of God.” Emily Dickinson
- “The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are the most important to the should than their simplicity might suggest.” Thomas Moore
- “My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.” Gunilla Norris