Reaching Up For Air-Stories of Addiction By Women, For Women

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually who are you NOT to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won't feel unsure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. " --Nelson Mandela

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." --Helen Keller

"You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt." --Meme Grifsters

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. --Amelia Earhart

A wounded deer leaps highest. --Emily

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. --Oscar Wilde

No man is free who is not master of himself.-- Epictetus

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow-- unknown

I let him that would move the world first move himself. -- Socrates

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind,
blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes
unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.-Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. -- Ben Franklin

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that lifewith all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in asense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. --Dorothy Thompson

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man'sdoing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or Ican be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only Ihold the key to my destiny. --Elaine Maxwell

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