Success is loving life and daring to live it.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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 some things back.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

All great achievements require time.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

To those who have given up on love: I say, “Trust life a little bit.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

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.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

We need much less than we think we need.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.