Quotes for All
If you receive empowerment, it’s about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it’s about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it’s about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta. Garchen Rinpoche
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Ezra Pound
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Erica Jong
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. Ellen DuBois
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Ella Fitzgerald
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life’s work. I don’t believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan. Elizabeth Dole
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? Elizabeth Bowen