Lisana's favorite quotes

These quotes are in no particular order, just things I've picked up in my readings, web surfing, and various other sources. I hope you enjoy them; please feel free to take a few, if you like.

Listening to your heart is not simple.
Finding out who you are is not simple.
It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.
-- Sue Bender

Sometime in your life you will go on a journey.
It will be the longest journey you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself
-- Katherine Sharp

Sometimes a person must go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding, of all that's gone to make them -- before they can go forward.
-- Paule Marshall

We are the hero of our own story.
-- Mary McCarthy

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be, also.
-- The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 21

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don't have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a think enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
-- Jessamyn West

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye-centered, so appearance besotted.
-- Jessamyn West

There is only one question:
How to love this world
-- Mary Oliver

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
-- Hypatia

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
-- Helen Keller

The next time someone tells you a story or shares an accomplishment with you, notice your tendency to say something about yourself in response, and STOP!
-- Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the 'damage' you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions. Do what you can do. Then let it rest.
-- Neale Donald Walsh, in Conversations With God, Book 3

Hold out your hands, to feel the luxury of the sunbeams!
-- Helen Keller

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
-- Joseph Addison

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
-- Sylvia Plath

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
-- Susan Glaspell in The Visioning

Have any quotes you think I'd like? Please e-mail me, or leave them in my guestbook or the Forum!

Thanks! ~ Lis