“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Compassion
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Integrity
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks