“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ”

Anna Quindlen journalist, novelist

Believe In Yourself
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Teresa O. from Shelby, NC JANUARY 26, 2010
If I had to pick one quote to share with my daughter on how to live her life, this would be it!

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One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small. #<Author:0x00007f39e738a748>
DEVOTION
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. #<Author:0x00007f39e7357460>
VOLUNTEERING
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. #<Author:0x00007f39e733c8b8>
INNOVATION
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves—our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. #<Author:0x000055aa4bfe5718>
GENEROSITY
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. #<Author:0x000055aa4a570c98>
EDUCATION
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. #<Author:0x000055aa4c5bf968>
SHARING
Turn your wounds into wisdom. #<Author:0x000055aa4c378dd0>
WISDOM
A will finds a way. #<Author:0x000055aa4d83f318>
DETERMINATION
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. #<Author:0x000055aa4b2927a0>
LAUGHTER
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. #<Author:0x000055aa4d995140>
COMMUNITY
Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion toward others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path. #<Author:0x000055aa4d8f8a70>
COMPASSION
If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. #<Author:0x000055aa4d85c530>
VOLUNTEERING
A life lived with integrity… is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. #<Author:0x000055aa4da1b5b0>
INTEGRITY
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. #<Author:0x000055aa4d9c01d8>
LISTENING
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. #<Author:0x000055aa4dac2b30>
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
Mind. Body. Soul. These are the three things self-care is all about. #<Author:0x000055aa4da887c8>
SELF-CARE
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