We never know how high we are til we are called to rise,
And then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies.
Emily Dickenson

Creative minds have always been known to survive
any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud

No person is your friend who demands your silence,
or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

If you do not tell the truth about yourself,
you cannot tell the truth about other people.
Virginia Woolf

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen,
nor touched...but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate
from the heart whose soul has never been loosened or fertilized
by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
Julia Ward Howe

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really
good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery, and death.
Anne Frank

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do
things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain,
or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickenson

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all
around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire.
The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do
the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can stand tall without standing on someone.
You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in
nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom
it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,
fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found
no remedy for the worst of them all...the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

Common sense is seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

Thank goodness I was never sent to school;
it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside
and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be
kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt