I worked on my vision statement today. Here are some quotes that helped me write it.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~ Anais Nin (1903-1977), diarist, author
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), author and aviator
All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of four map segments. ~Conrad Breen, Wag the Dog
We are not here to be timid. ~Donald Maass, editor and agent
If making anything substantial really matters to you, you’re going to need to take the cure. The answer? You do the hard thing. No matter what it takes. You stick with it at the time you’re most tempted to run away. ~Merlin Mann, techie guy, MaxFunCon, 2009 June
Don’t be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ~Soong Mai-Ling (1891-2003), politician and artist
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things. ~Storm Jameson, That Was Yesterday, 1932
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ~Toni Morrison, writer
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. ~Tori Amos, pianist and singer-songwriter
I love myself when I am laughing. Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), novelist