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Inspirational Quotes

Here are quotes that I have returned to over the years and which always inspire and motivate me. If you have any that you would like to share, send me an email at paulaf@rainbowgyrl.net.

Becoming Real doesn't happen all at once ... you become. It takes a long time ... By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and shabby ... these things do not matter ... once you are Real you cannot be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
--- The Velveteen Rabbit

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
--- Anais Nin

One is not born a woman;
One becomes one
--- Simone de Beauvoir

If one does not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer. Let them step to the music which they hear, however measured or far away.
--- Thoureau

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited
--- Ramakrishna

There is an unspoken language. It comes from the silence and cannot be heard by the ears, only by the heart.
--- unknown

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
--- unknown