“Saying no to others is saying yes to yourself.” Jack Canfield “No is necessary magic. No draws a circle around you with chalk and says, ‘I have given enough.” McKayla Robbin “No is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone’s request
“How many times did I ask myself what I found so thrilling about drinking when it only brought unhappiness, loneliness, sickness, depression? I wasn’t ‘living,’ I was only breathing to feed an addiction.” Jean Kirkpatrick, PhD., Turnabout “To change requires a decision, a conscious decision to end all the misery you
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln “Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all dogs that were excited for the ride until we realized where we’re going.” Unknown “No one else is going to build the life you want for you. No one
“Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.” Sheryl Sandberg “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be
“This is a wonderful day I have never seen before.” Maya Angelou “For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.” Charlotte Brontë “Always have an attitude
“The giving of love is an education itself.” Eleanor Roosevelt “Stuff is irrelevant. Sooner or later we have to throw overboard our possessions, vanities, and ambitions; only the good we have done matters.” Isabel Allende “Take time to look…….” Georgia O’Keefe #10 All love given returns. I am learning to
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” Nicole Sobon “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” Deborah Reber “Even on my weakest days I get a
“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” Nightbirde “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” Gail Sheehy “Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your
“It takes courage and strength to be empathetic.” Jacinda Arden “Find ecstasy in life: the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” Brené Brown #7 Love can change the course of
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing—just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?” Ralph Marston “It may look like I’m doing nothing,