This thought provoking quote is from author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia. Mr. Buscaglia died in 1998. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!



Work

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
—Confucius


Perspective

On the whole...kids are pretty lucky. They can find a penny on the sidewalk and feel rich. They can find a fossil-shaped rock and feel like Indiana Jones. They can find an anthill and feel like God.
—Michael Burkett

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!
—Leo Buscaglia

If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
—Bill Cosby

A light heart lives longer.
—Shakespeare


Appreciation

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
—Alice Walker


Problems

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
—Norman Vincent Peale


On feminism

The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.
—Shirley Chisholm

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
—Linda Ellerbee

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
—Marlo Thomas

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
—Golda Meir

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all civil and political rights that belong to the citizens of the United States be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
—Susan B. Anthony

A natural response is to change the word “feminist” to a word with fewer stigmas attached. But inevitably the same thing will happen to that magical word. Part of the radical connotation of feminism is not due to the word, but to the action. The act of a woman standing up for herself is radical, whether she calls herself a feminist or not.
—Paula Kamen

I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I’m a feminist, and half of them think it means I’m a lesbian. How’d we get from there to here without passing “Go”?
—Molly Ivins

Feminism is a recognition of the domination of men over women and attempts by women to end male privilege.... It is a theory, a method and a practice which seeks to transform human relations.
—Cynthia Orozco

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
—Cheris Kramerae

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.
—Richard Epstein

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
—Rebecca West

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
—Sally Kempton

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
—Gloria Steinem

Hone your skills for work and family and you hone them for living life to the fullest