Quotes for the Soul

Home is where the heart is. :)

Money fills the stomach, but it does not fill the heart. If I have to choose, I'd rather die with a full heart on an empty stomach than a full stomach with an empty heart.

Me! :3

 "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

Jim Rohn 

"Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone....Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else."

Angelina Jolie; American actress

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

Audre Lorde; writer, poet, and activist 

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be."

Clementine Paddleford; American food writer

"Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt."

Joyce Meyer; Christian author and speaker

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

Samuel Johnson; English author

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you."

Maya Angelou

"The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass."

Queen Elizabeth II

"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it."

Maya Angelou

"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot."

Robert Townsend

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

Roseanne Barr; American actress, comedian, writer

"Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen."

Blair Waldorf, in "Gossip Girl"

 "Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."

Ezra Taft Benson

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures in life are the people who have the habit of making excuses."

George Washington Carver