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

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. --Abraham Lincoln

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. -- Ella Williams

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -- Marcus Aurelius

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. --Mary Antin

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. --Albert Einstein

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.-- Audry Hepburn

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.-- Henry David Thoreau

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. --Thomas Alva Edison

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Winston Churchhill

It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.--J.R.R. Tolkien

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. --Harriet Woods

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. --James Thurber

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The answer, maybe, is going out & doing rather than waiting. If you wait, life will probably pass you by. But if you go out & do the things you want to, take the risks you fear, you may just find that everything slots into place. — Rob E. Geraghty

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You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly & without fear for newer & richer experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. — Theodore Roosevelt

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