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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.

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.

 

  1. “Children spell love T-I-M-E.” Dr. Anthony P. Whitman
  2. “The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.” Napoleon Bonaparte
  3. “All mothers are working mothers.” Author Unknown
  4. “There’s nothing like a mama-hug.” Adabella Radici
  5. “Son, you outgrew my lap, but not my heart.” Author Unknown
  6. “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” Mark Twain
  7. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it is just in your eyes.” Walter M. Schirra Sr.
  8. “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends – but only one mother in the whole wide world.” Kate Douglas Wiggin
  9. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln
  10. “You can’t wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.” Author Unknown
  11. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” Oprah Winfrey
  12. “A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.” Frank A. Clark
  13. “Adoption is when a child grows in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.” Author Unknown
  14. “The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” Martha Washington
  15. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can thinks up of only you try.” Dr. Suess
  16. “Boys are beyond the range of anyone’s understanding. at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” James Thurber
  17. “Who gives to me teaches me to give.” Ancient Proverb
  18. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” Helen Keller
  19. “You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
  20. “The best portion of a good person’s life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth
  21. “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” Eileen Elias Freeman
  22. “The first duty of love is to listen.” Paul Tillich
  23. “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Dr. Karl Menninger
  24. “Every child begins the world again…” Henry David Thoreau
  25. “I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.” Author Unknown
  26. “Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.” Author Unknown
  27. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” Miles Franklin
  28. “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.” Author Unknown
  29. “We pardon as long as we love.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  30. “Reflect upon your present blessings.” Charles Dickens
  31. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
  32. “Remembrances last longer than present realities.” Jean Paul Richter
  33. “Positive lessons are not always taught in positive ways.” Anonymous
  34. “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.” Greg, age 8
  35. “Every experience, every thought, every word, every person in your life is a part of a larger picture of your growth.” Macrina Wiederkehr
  36. “The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother – and they will settle for the puppy every time.” Winston Pendelton
  37. “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” James Matthew Barrie
  38. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” Nicholas Sparks
  39. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone with your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” Sophia Loren
  40. “You are my sonshine.” Author Unknown
  41. “It takes a village to raise a child.” African Proverb
  42. “And the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. An he arose and followed her.” 2 Kings 4:30
  43. “A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God’s own home, to flower the earth.” Gerald Massey
  44. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  45. “Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.” Marva Collins
  46. “You can learn many things for children.” Franklin P. Jones
  47. “In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” Flora Edwards
  48. “The mother’s heart is in the child’s schoolroom.” H.W. Beecher
  49. “Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” Ruth Ann Schabacker
  50. “The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.” Pierre Corneille
  51. “Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” Franklin P. Jones
  1. “And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke
  2. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston
  3. “You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.” Joe E. Lewis
  4. simple, adj. 1: without embellishment; 2. clarity of form and thought; fundamental.
  5. abundance, n. 1: an ample quantity, profusion; 2: wealth; 3. plentifulness
  6. simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2. a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment
  7. “What is often wrong is that we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self.” Emily Hancock
  8. “The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman].” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. “Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one’s life.” Joanna Field
  10. “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
  11. “In my life’s chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.” Hannah Senesh
  12. “Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  13. “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
  14. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
  15. “The eyes of my eyes are opened.” e.e. cummings
  16. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” Melody Beattie
  17. “‘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
  18. “Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.” Pearl Buck
  19. “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.” Artur Schnabel
  20. “You agree – I’m sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.” Agatha Christie
  21. “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
  22. “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
  23. “Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense she has always been the pioneer.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  24. “Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.” Katherine Mansfield
  25. “Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.” Emmet Fox
  26. “Take the gentle path.” George Herbert
  27. “I will write myself into well-being.” Nancy Mair
  28. “Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study.” Jessamyn West
  29. “If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.” Jessamyn West
  30. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21
  31. “Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.” Antonio Porchia
  32. “Each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities.” Woman’s Home Companion December 1915
  33. “The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.” Alexander Pope
  34. “Let us imagine care of the soul, then, as an application of poetics to every day life.” Thomas Moore
  35. “Once you are real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” Margery Williams
  36. “And write about it, Goddess, and about it!” Alexander Pope
  37. “Bring your intelligence, your energy and your passion.” Homeric Hymn
  38. “To be really great in little things… is a virtue so rare as to be worthy pf canonization.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
  39. “More things are wrought by prayer than this world reams of.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  40. “There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and this is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” Madeleine L’Engle
  41. “Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?” Jane Austen
  42. “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.” Simone Weil
  43. “These are only hints an guesses… the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.” T. S. Elliot
  44. “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart & to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside you.” Judith Jamison
  45. “The should should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson
  46. “Inside myself is a place where I live alone & that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” Pearl Buck
  47. “For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.” Christian LaCroix
  48. “Undoubtedly we become what we envision.” Claude M. Bristol
  49. “Adornment is never anything but a reflection of the self.”
  50. “Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance

4.16 “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

4.17 “Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.” Edith Wharton

4.18 “The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” Yves Saint Lauren

4.19 “Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.” Edward Carpenter

4.20 “There might be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath

4.21 “Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.” – Rudyard Kipling

4.22 “Nothing can cure the soul but the sense, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde

4.23 “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

4.24 “I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.” Alain-Rene Le Sage

4.25 “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

4.26 “With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,  I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4.27 “Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.’ Francis Thompson

4.28 “Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain, but simply points the way.” Florence Scovel Shinn

4.29 “Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.” Rosalind Russell
4.30 “The most radiant woman in the room is one full of life and experience.” Sharon Stone

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. – L.M. Montgomery

6.1 “House ordering is my prayer, and when I have finished my prayer is answered. And bending, stooping, scrubbing, purifies my body as prayer doesn’t.” Jessamyn West

6.2 “Style is to see beauty in modesty.” Andree Putmam

6.3 “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Matthew 7:7

6.4 “Style has nothing to do with money. Anybody can do it with money. The true art is to do it on a shoestring.” Tom Hogan

6.5 “All one really needs is a divinely attractive bed.” Mrs. Winston Guest

6.6 “If I were a psychiatrist, I think I would like to inspect my patients’ bathrooms before investigating any other area of their lives.” Mark Hampton

6.7 “Some of the living-rooms we see have really no right to the name; they are so unattractive they ought, instead, to be called existing rooms. I like to think of the word “living rooms” being short for the joy-of-living rooms – full of life and happiness and beauty.” Lucy Throop

6.8 “When we are authentic, when we keep our spaces simple, simply beautiful living takes place.” Alexandra Stoddard

6.9 “A confused mind cannot direct deft hands and what is more confusing than a cluttered, disorderly place to work? What is more uninviting, too? The grateful appearance of order – this is the one important way women judge each other’s house keeping. And every efficient housekeeper knows that in no room does it count more than the kitchen.” Women’s Home Companion Aug 1924

6.10 “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to our details around us.” Virginia Woolf

6.11 “Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always great satisfaction.” Katherine Mansfield

6.12 “And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep / In Blanched linen, smooth, and lavender’d.” John Keats

6.13 “The array of pots rather amazed her at first, but John was so fond of jelly, and the nice little jars would look so well on the top shelf.” Louisa May Alcott

6.14 “The English rose greets the summer garden with a profusion of colour and perfume and doors and windows are thrown open to allow the season’s intoxicating atmosphere to envelop us and our homes.” Syndney A. Sykes

6.15 “The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6.16 “I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred, I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.17 “There never has been a house so bad that it couldn’t be made over into something worthwhile.” Elsie De Wolfe

6.18 “And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin

6.19 “Gardening is the instrument of grace.” May Sarton

6.20 “Within our heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.” Louise Driscoll

6.21 “Bloom where you are planted.”  Mary Engelbreit

6.22 “It is difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato.” Lewis Grizzard

6.23 “Now is the high-tide of the year,

And whatever of life has ebbed away

Comes flooding back with the ripply cheer

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,

We are happy now, because God wills it.” James Russell Lowell

6.24 “I’d rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck.” Emma Goldman

6.25 “Plant it with the green side up.” Mary Ann and Frederick McGourty

6.26 “All year round she kept racks full of plants in pots standing on green painted wooden steps. There were rare geraniums, dwarf roses-bushes, spiraeas with misty white and pink plumes.” Colette

6.27 Balm brings you sympathy and Marjoram joy

Sage is lone life … Sweet Woodruff augurs well for health –

A blessing richer far than wealth.

While Lavender means deep devotion,

Herb sweet omen, Rosemary conveys

Affection and remembrance all your days.

May Heaven and Earth and Man combine

To keep these blessings ever thine.” Rachel Page Elliott

6.28 “Little flower – but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all

I should know what God and [woman] is.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

6.29 “My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.” Sara Teasdale

6.30 “All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it.” Eileen Caddy

“September the harvest month…Summer is over and Autumn has arrived.” Cynthia Wickman

9.1 “Autumn to winter, winter to spring,

spring into summer, summer into fall –

So rolls the changing year, and so we change;

Motion so swift, we know not that we move.” Dinah Mulock Craik

9.2 “Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it to understand it.” Rainer Maria Rilke

9.3 “At work, you think of the children you left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.” Golda Meir

9.4 “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” Buddha

9.5 “The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is Real.” Marge Piercy

9.6 “Work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran

9.7 “Oh, the secret life of man and woman – dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been exploited to its fullest.” Zelda Fitzgerald

9.8 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” Hellen Keller

9.9 “You gain strength , courage and confidence by every experience in which you  really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

9.11 “One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about.” Anne Tyler

9.12 “Let us, then be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

learn to labor and wait.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

9.12 “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” Samuel Johnson

9.13 “A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the reason for which we sought it has passed.” Ellen Glasgow

9.14 “It was the first operatic mountain I climbed, and the view from it was astounding, exhilarating, stupefying.” Leontyne Price

9.15 “We all must pay with the current coin of life for the honey we taste.” Rachel Blumstein

9.16 “The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who did not have a chance.” Merle Shain

9.17 “Life itself is the proper binge.” Julia Child

9.18 “Flops are part of life’s menu and I’m never a girl to miss out on a course.” Rosalind Russell

9.19  “Oh it’s delightful to have ambitions…And there never seems to be any end to them – that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”  Anne Shirley

9.20 “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo (Walt Kelly)

9.21 “My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, did all within the circle move.” Edmund Waller

9.22 “I would like to learn or remember, how to live.” Annie Dillard

9.23 ”When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” Oprah Winfrey

9.24 “Do what you love, and the money will follow.” Marsha Sinetar

9.25 “I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.” Gloria Vanderbilt

9.26 “Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge

9.27 ”Only the heart know how to find what is precious.” Fydor Dostoyevsky

9.28 “There is a time for everything, And a season for every activity under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1

9.29 “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.” Eda LeShan
9.30 “Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you’re off that’s all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 

“The fields are harvested and bare,

And Winter whistles through the square.

October dresses in flame and gold

Like a woman afraid of growing old.” Anne Mary Lawler

10.1 “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night.” Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.2 “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” Pablo Picasso

10.3 “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped & insane your whole life.” Anne Lamott

10.4 “There are some things you learn best in the calm, and some in the storm.” Will Cather #learning

10.5 “Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.” Tatsuhiko Andoh

10.6 “Things do not change; we change.” Henry David Thoreau

10.7 “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.” Robert Frost

10.8 “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.” W. Somerset Maugham

10.9 “In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes… from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.” Salman Rushdie

10.10 “No quality is more attractive than poise – that deep sense of being at ease with yourself and the world.” Good Housekeeping, Sept 1947

10.11 “It’s always something.” Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner)

10.12 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens

10.13 “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of [her] is more than I can see.” Robert Louis Stevenson

10.14 “To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.” Samuel Johnson

10.15 “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” Henry David Thoreau

10.16 “How, but in custom and ceremony, are innocence and beauty born?” W.B. Yeats

10.17 “So many worlds, so much to do. So little done, such things to be.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

10.18 “Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.” Ann Quindlen

10.19 “Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments.” Oscar Wilde

10.20 “If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have a headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angles, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.21 “Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.” Marjorie Holmes

10.22 “Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.” Phyllis McGinley

10.23 “The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.” Jacob Needleman

10.24 “Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.” Karen Horney

10.25 “Here are the bills again,

I always dread them a little.

They are familiar presences:

first in the mail box, then in the bill drawer,

now on the desk. Services Rendered.

My life is dependent on services rendered.” Gunilla Norris

10.26 “I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.” Dorothy Parker

10.27 “There must be more to life than having everything.” Maurice Sendak

10.28 “A little bit added to what you’ve already got gives you a little bit more.” P.G. Wodehouse

10.29 “Whoever thinks that [she] is helping to keep God’s work going on the earth cannot help but believe that God will help [her].” Charles Fillmore

10.30 “A lean purse is easier to cure than endure.” George S. Clason

10.31 “To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of hidden reality.” Starhawk

11.14 “There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Einstein

11.15 “We all have angels guiding us…They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands.” Sophy Burnham

11.16 “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. “ J.S. Mill

11.17 “It’s terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

11.18 “Each friend represents a world in us.” Anais Nin

11.19 “Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Blanche Dubois (Tennessee Williams)

11.20 “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” Jane Howard

11.22 “It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it.” Anne Shirely

11.23 “An open home, an open heart, here grows a bountiful harvest.” Judy Hand

11.24 “The first wealth is health.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.25 “Illness is a doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.” Marcel Proust

11.26 “There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don’t die you live through it, day in, day out.” Mary Beckett

11.29 “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman
11.30 “We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy control any switches at all.” Annie Dillard
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Simple Abundance: Super September Quotes for Moms

Simple Abundance: 31 Great Quotes for Moms in October

“April, the Angel of the Months.” Vuta Sackville-West

4.1 “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart & to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside you.” Judith Jamison

4.2 “The should should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson

4.3 “Inside myself is a place where I live alone & that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” Pearl Buck

4.4 “ For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.” Christian LaCroix

4.5 “Undoubtedly we become what we envision.” Claude M. Bristol

4.6 “Adornment is never anything but a reflection of the self.”

4.15 “Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance

4.16 “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

4.17 “Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.” Edith Wharton

4.18 “The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” Yves Saint Lauren

4.19 “Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.” Edward Carpenter

4.20 “There might be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath

4.21 “Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.” – Rudyard Kipling

4.22 “Nothing can cure the soul but the sense, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde

4.23 “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

4.24 “I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.” Alain-Rene Le Sage

4.25 “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

4.26 “With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,  I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4.27 “Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.’ Francis Thompson

4.28 “Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain, but simply points the way.” Florence Scovel Shinn

4.29 “Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.” Rosalind Russell
4.30 “The most radiant woman in the room is one full of life and experience.” Sharon Stone

September

“September the harvest month…Summer is over and Autumn has arrived.” Cynthia Wickman

9.1 “Autumn to winter, winter to spring,

spring into summer, summer into fall –

So rolls the changing year, and so we change;

Motion so swift, we know not that we move.” Dinah Mulock Craik

9.2 “Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it to understand it.” Rainer Maria Rilke

9.3 “At work, you think of the children you left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.” Golda Meir

9.4 “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” Buddha

9.5 “The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is Real.” Marge Piercy

9.6 “Work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran

9.7 “Oh, the secret life of man and woman – dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been exploited to its fullest.” Zelda Fitzgerald

9.8 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” Hellen Keller

9.9 “You gain strength , courage and confidence by every experience in which you  really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

9.11 “One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about.” Anne Tyler

9.12 “Let us, then be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

learn to labor and wait.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

9.12 “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” Samuel Johnson

9.13 “A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the reason for which we sought it has passed.” Ellen Glasgow

9.14 “It was the first operatic mountain I climbed, and the view from it was astounding, exhilarating, stupefying.” Leontyne Price

9.15 “We all must pay with the current coin of life for the honey we taste.” Rachel Blumstein

9.16 “The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who did not have a chance.” Merle Shain

9.17 “Life itself is the proper binge.” Julia Child

9.18 “Flops are part of life’s menu and I’m never a girl to miss out on a course.” Rosalind Russell

9.19  “Oh it’s delightful to have ambitions…And there never seems to be any end to them – that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”  Anne Shirley

9.20 “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo (Walt Kelly)

9.21 “My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, did all within the circle move.” Edmund Waller

9.22 “I would like to learn or remember, how to live.” Annie Dillard

9.23 ”When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” Oprah Winfrey

9.24 “Do what you love, and the money will follow.” Marsha Sinetar

9.25 “I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.” Gloria Vanderbilt

9.26 “Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge

9.27 ”Only the heart know how to find what is precious.” Fydor Dostoyevsky

9.28 “There is a time for everything, And a season for every activity under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1

9.29 “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.” Eda LeShan
9.30 “Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you’re off that’s all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The fields are harvested and bare,

And Winter whistles through the square.

October dresses in flame and gold

Like a woman afraid of growing old.” Anne Mary Lawler

10.1 “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night.” Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.2 “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” Pablo Picasso

10.3 “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped & insane your whole life.” Anne Lamott

10.4 “There are some things you learn best in the calm, and some in the storm.” Will Cather #learning

10.5 “Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.” Tatsuhiko Andoh

10.6 “Things do not change; we change.” Henry David Thoreau

10.7 “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.” Robert Frost

10.8 “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.” W. Somerset Maugham

10.9 “In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes… from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.” Salman Rushdie

10.10 “No quality is more attractive than poise – that deep sense of being at ease with yourself and the world.” Good Housekeeping, Sept 1947

10.11 “It’s always something.” Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner)

10.12 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens

10.13 “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of [her] is more than I can see.” Robert Louis Stevenson

10.14 “To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.” Samuel Johnson

10.15 “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” Henry David Thoreau

10.16 “How, but in custom and ceremony, are innocence and beauty born?” W.B. Yeats

10.17 “So many worlds, so much to do. So little done, such things to be.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

10.18 “Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.” Ann Quindlen

10.19 “Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments.” Oscar Wilde

10.20 “If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have a headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angles, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.21 “Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.” Marjorie Holmes

10.22 “Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.” Phyllis McGinley

10.23 “The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.” Jacob Needleman

10.24 “Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.” Karen Horney

10.15 “Here are the bills again,

I always dread them a little.

They are familiar presences:

first in the mail box, then in the bill drawer,

now on the desk. Services Rendered.

My life is dependent on services rendered.” Gunilla Norris

10.26 “I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.” Dorothy Parker

10.27 “There must be more to life than having everything.” Maurice Sendak

10.28 “A little bit added to what you’ve already got gives you a little bit more.” P.G. Wodehouse

10.29 “Whoever thinks that [she] is helping to keep God’s work going on the earth cannot help but believe that God will help [her].” Charles Fillmore

10.30 “A lean purse is easier to cure than endure.” George S. Clason

10.31 “To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of hidden reality.” Starhawk

 

11.1 “The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.” Alexander Pope

 

11.2 “Let us imagine care of the soul, then, as an application of poetics to every day life.” Thomas Moore

 

11.3 “Once you are real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” Margery Williams

 

11. 4 “And write about it, Goddess, and about it!” Alexander Pope

 

11.5 “Bring your intelligence, your energy and your passion.” Homeric Hymn

 

11.6 “To be really great in little things… is a virtue so rare as to be worthy pf canonization.” Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

11.8 “More things are wrought by prayer than this world reams of.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

11.9 “There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and this is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” Madeleine L’Engle

 

11.10 “Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?” Jane Austen

 

11.11 “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.” Simone Weil

 

11.12 “These are only hints an guesses… the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.” T. S. Elliot

 

11.14 “There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Einstein

 

11.15 “We all have angels guiding us…They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands.” Sophy Burnham

 

11.16 “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. “ J.S. Mill

 

11.17 “It’s terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

11.18 “Each friend represents a world in us.” Anais Nin

 

11.19 “Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Blanche Dubois (Tennessee Williams)

 

11.20 “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” Jane Howard

 

11.22 “It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it.” Anne Shirely

 

11.23 “An open home, an open heart, here grows a bountiful harvest.” Judy Hand

 

11.24 “The first wealth is health.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

11.25 “Illness is a doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.” Marcel Proust

 

11.26 “There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don’t die you live through it, day in, day out.” Mary Beckett

 
“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman, #dreams
“We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy control any switches at all.” Annie Dillard