There is nothing like returning
to a place that remains
unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have
altered.
-- Nelson Mandela
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the
advantage.
-- Bill Balance
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit
ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is
what they are meant to do.
-- Mother Maribel
Because of their age-long training
in human
relations-for that is what feminine intuition really
is-women have a special contribution to make to any
group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to
contribute the kinds of awareness that relatively few
men . . . have incorporated through their education.
-- Margaret Mead
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom
manifests itself.
-- Oprah Winfrey
Women have served all these centuries as looking
glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of
reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural
size.
-- Virginia Woolf
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest
things in the world.
-- Lao-tzu
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small
treats.
-- Iris Murdoch
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
-- Oprah Winfrey
If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born
open, and so is your heart. And though there may be
times when your hands are empty, your heart is always
full, and you can give things out of that.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Men who treat women as helpless
and charming playthings
deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous
bank accounts.
-- Anonymous - GQ magazine
Affection is responsible for
nine-tenths of whatever
solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis
We love because it is the only
true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni
The best relationship is one where your love for each
other is greater than your need for each other.
-- Anonynous
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given
birth.
-- Erma Bombeck
What you discover on your own is always more exciting
than what someone else discovers for you-it's like the
difference between romantic love and an arranged
marriage.
-- Terrence Rafferty
Don't trust someone who doesn't close their eyes when
you kiss them.
-- Anonymous
The truth is, if we listen
carefully, inspiration and motivation are all around us. I've
always believed inspiration is the Universe trying to give us
a nudge. Perhaps, it's the divine spirit whispering in our ear.
With the inspirational quotes and motivational advice contained
in one volume--"Life and Other Options" by Anita Bergen--you
can have a regular dose of inspiration, motivation and spiritual
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Introduction
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Inspirational Articles
Inspirational Poems
Inspirational Quotes for Women
Inspirational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes on Grief
Copyright 2004 ©
by Anita Bergen
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
anita@inspirationonline.com