INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Anytime we can listen to our true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch. ”
Parker Palmer
SELF-CARE
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
SELF-CARE
“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”
Mandy Hale
SELF-CARE
“Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.”
Laurie Buchanan
SELF-CARE
“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”
Oprah Winfrey
EMPATHY
“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another’s pain as one’s own, and to act to take that pain away. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
John Connolly
EMPATHY
“Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.”
Max Carver
EMPATHY
“Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘you are not alone’.”
Brené Brown
EMPATHY
“The cure for anything is salt water—tears, sweat, or the sea. ”
Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
GET OUTSIDE
“Now I know the secret of making the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the Earth.”
Walt Whitman
GET OUTSIDE
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GET OUTSIDE
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
Will Smith
BEING THERE
“To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.”
Albert Schweitzer
HEALTH
“It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”
Steve Maraboli
HEALTH
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Edward de Bono
CREATIVITY
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
Leo Burnett
CREATIVITY
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
CREATIVITY
“Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests. ”
Carl Holmes
COURTESY
“If you were born with the weakness to fall. You were born with the strength to rise.”
Rupi Kaur
STRENGTH
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
Jodi Picoult
STRENGTH
“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
STRENGTH
“A true hero isn’t measured by the size of their strength, but by the strength of their heart.”
Zeus, Hercules
STRENGTH
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Lorraine Anderson
APPRECIATING NATURE
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
Rachel Carson
APPRECIATING NATURE
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”
Sylvia Plath