Wise Women Quotes - Page 4

• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Political, Witch

  "The Burning Times". 1990.

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Ifs, Katie

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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• Talk without effort is nothing.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Life, Talking, Effort

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.58, Indiana University Press

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.78, Penguin

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• If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

  Regina Brett

  Funny, Relationship, Women

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• I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Philosophy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Motivational, Self Motivation, Way

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving On, Letting Go, Hands

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.

  Sarada Devi

  Love, Wisdom, Giving

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• I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

  Anita Loos

  Women, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

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• It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

  Byron Katie

  Dream, Stress, Feelings

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.6, Random House

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• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Criticism, Praise, Deceived

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• A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

  Ayn Rand

  Desire, Doe, Care

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.13, Penguin

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Success, Work

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• Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

  Joan Aiken

  Spices, Few Words

  Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media

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