Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.
Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.