“A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre.” – Donna Goddard

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“What do you truly want?
What does your heart whisper?
Are you listening?
Is there enough space for you
in your own life?”
― Molly Remer, Walking with Persephone

“To succeed you have to believe in something with such passion that it becomes a reality.” — Anita Roddick

“Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.”
– Grethen Rubin

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” — Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“Flowers preach to us if we will hear.”

ROSSETTI, Consider the Lilies of the Field