Donna M Thomas quote: "It is crucial, in our evolution, to think for ourselves and to question authority. In this practice, be bold, be brave, while also being cognizant of the consequences."

It takes courage to practice compassion, and emotional intelligence to practice empathy. Both are ke...
DONNA M THOMAS

Please don't shoot the Buddha! What is he/she/it teaching you today?
DONNA M THOMAS

The reason many do not allow change in their life is because they fear the unknown. Get bold! Follow...
DONNA M THOMAS

Our conscious evolution ensues as we begin to remove the layers we hide behind.
DONNA M THOMAS

We are all teachers, and we teach what we most need to learn, over and over again, until we get it.
DONNA M THOMAS

At the very core of every human being is the deep need to both love and be loved. Remember this in a...
DONNA M THOMAS

In loving, be clear on the difference between intensity and intimacy. Are you more committed to reve...
DONNA M THOMAS

Have patience. In times of indecision and confusion, certainty is often just one insight away.
DONNA M THOMAS

The antithesis of love is Fear, not anger. At the core of all persistent or long-term emotional suff...
DONNA M THOMAS

All your experiences, and more importantly your responses to them, determine who you are today.
DONNA M THOMAS

Choose love, release fear. Choose love, release fear. Choose love, release fear over and over again ...
DONNA M THOMAS

To love yourself completely, in spite of all your faults and foibles, is THE work. For only when you...
DONNA M THOMAS

First do for yourself what you ask of others.
DONNA M THOMAS

In loving, be clear on the difference between intensity and intimacy.
DONNA M THOMAS

Being right doesn’t make us safe…or happy. It is more fulfilling to aim for authenticity and tra...
DONNA M THOMAS

Grace is always waiting in the wings to rush forward on our behalf.
DONNA M THOMAS

When all is said and done, by what are we measured? By the body of choices we have made through toda...
DONNA M THOMAS

Happiness is being at peace with what is. It is trusting that your past was, your present is, and yo...
DONNA M THOMAS

The Universe is always, Always, ALWAYS conspiring on your behalf and for your highest good.
DONNA M THOMAS

The need for control is most often an attempt to create feelings of trust and safety. Let go and hon...
DONNA M THOMAS

Have patience. A person does the best they can, otherwise they would do better.
DONNA M THOMAS

One must be in right relationship with oneself to maintain healthy relationships with others. You'd ...
DONNA M THOMAS

From the flow within does one’s outer life take its shape. The stronger the current the more signi...
DONNA M THOMAS

If everyone knew they made a difference, what a difference we could make.
DONNA M THOMAS

Keep your Eyes on your Vision, and your Vision will find You.
DONNA M THOMAS

Your life ISN’T a result of your history. Your life is a result of what you ‘decided’ the even...
DONNA M THOMAS

Your future and your past are being created in this very moment. Now that's power. What are you choo...
DONNA M THOMAS

I am not always correct about what I am certain.
DONNA M THOMAS

Are you living in S.I.N. (Sunk Into Negativity)? Or, are you living in J.O.Y. (Jubilant Omnipresent ...
DONNA M THOMAS

In forgiving, say: I forgive you. I forgive me. I ask that you forgive yourself, and I ask that you ...
DONNA M THOMAS

When you work right, so does everything else.
DONNA M THOMAS

Have difficulty trusting? Dedicate yourself to being trustworthy and in alignment to who you say you...
DONNA M THOMAS

You will know you have fully forgiven when you forget that you forgave.
DONNA M THOMAS

For maximum health, every day be sure to eat from each of the 5 food groups: protein, vegetables, fr...
DONNA M THOMAS

Grace: The power of the omnipresent, exquisite Divine (the governing force that lives in and through...
DONNA M THOMAS

Never test the depth of a river with both feet...unless it's a river of love.
DONNA M THOMAS

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
JOHN M. THOMAS

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
JOHN M. THOMAS

This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. ...
THOMAS M SMITH

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
THOMAS M. CIRIGNANO

What to Accept

The fact of mountains. The actuality
Of any stone — by kickin...
THOMAS M. DISCH

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
D. M. THOMAS

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.
THOMAS M. DISCH

But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that ...
THOMAS M. DISCH

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day se...
THOMAS M. DISCH

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Suc...
THOMAS M. DISCH

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just li...
THOMAS M. DISCH

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go a...
THOMAS M. DISCH

The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching mater...
THOMAS M. STEEN

We could probably win more often if we were willing to deploy seasoned personnel and equip them with...
THOMAS M. FRANCK

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. THOMAS M DISCH

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire t...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousnes...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.

I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M

-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'
DONNA MCKECHNIE

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
DONNA MILLS

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
DONNA KARAN

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn'...
DONNA BRAZILE

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that...
DONNA BRAZILE

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is paint...
DONNA TARTT

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
DONNA LEON

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and bu...
DONNA MILLS

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's s...
DONNA DIXON

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and...
DONNA SHALALA

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss ...
DONNA LEON

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm...
DONNA EDWARDS

In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger ...
DONNA BRAZILE

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what iss...
DONNA BRAZILE

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow ol...
DONNA AIR

Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to bre...
DONNA BRAZILE

If I become like you, then how can I live with all the things I've done?” - X-10
DONNA GALANTI

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for it...
DONNA TARTT

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, hone...
DONNA REED

We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses e...
DONNA GODDARD

What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...
DONNA TARTT

Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about ...
DONNA GODDARD

Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire ...
DONNA GODDARD

But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murde...
DONNA TARTT

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...
DONNA TARTT

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying...
DONNA BARR

It is true that you may occasionally overhear a mother say
Children must have their naps,
It...
DONNA EVLETH

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
DONNA REED

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there i...
DONNA ROBERTS

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which sp...
DONNA GODDARD

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to di...
DONNA BRAZILE

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent ...
DONNA BRAZILE

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the ...
DONNA BRAZILE

I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school ...
DONNA BRAZILE

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your stren...
DONNA BRAZILE

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
DONNA KARAN

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to...
DONNA KARAN

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever...
DONNA MILLS

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down t...
DONNA BRAZILE

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back...
DONNA KARAN

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
DONNA KARAN

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
DONNA BRAZILE

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wage...
DONNA BRAZILE

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to conti...
DONNA DIXON

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
DONNA RICE

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
DONNA KARAN

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I...
DONNA MILLS

You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one ...
DONNA GODDARD

When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what t...
DONNA MCKECHNIE

Helping the poor doesn't mean redistributing the wealth. It means removing the breaks that give ...
DONNA BRAZILE

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more mea...
DONNA TARTT

In Pope Francis, I see a leader who lives every day in the image of Jesus. Under his guidance, the c...
DONNA BRAZILE

I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's bee...
DONNA BRAZILE

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some...
DONNA SHALALA

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty p...
DONNA RICE

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are s...
DONNA TARTT

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of ...
DONNA TARTT

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to...
DONNA MCKECHNIE

On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, hi...
DONNA BRAZILE

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, ...
DONNA RICE

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
DONNA BRAZILE

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest o...
DONNA BRAZILE

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
DONNA MCKECHNIE

The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of...
DONNA BRAZILE

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material,...
DONNA LEON

We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change...
DONNA BRAZILE

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
DONNA MILLS

I always thought I should have been a better mother.
DONNA KARAN

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ...
DONNA KARAN

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from r...
DONNA BRAZILE

If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue wi...
DONNA GODDARD

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which ...
DONNA GODDARD

Whenever possible, choose peace.
DONNA GODDARD

To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own ...
DONNA GODDARD

Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.
DONNA GODDARD

The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all de...
DONNA GODDARD

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.
DONNA GODDARD

A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together ...
DONNA ALWARD

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor re...
DONNA GODDARD

It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of i...
DONNA GODDARD

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...
DONNA BRAZILE

It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.
DONNA GODDARD

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
DONNA TARTT

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticism...
DONNA BRAZILE

I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has per...
DONNA BRAZILE

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it...
DONNA BRAZILE

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
DONNA KARAN

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does...
DONNA LEON

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...
DONNA BRAZILE

We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would den...
DONNA BRAZILE

Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predec...
DONNA BRAZILE

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
DONNA REED

This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clear...
DONNA BRAZILE

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
DONNA REED

If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.
DONNA BRAZILE

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we qu...
DONNA TARTT

I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to ...
DONNA ABBOTT

We bought the property as much for the tree as for the Victorian house.
DONNA ABBOTT

We've got quite a few ideas. We still have a Land Rover in Australia.
DONNA ABBOTT

They didn't know if he was going to live.
DONNA ABBOTT

It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.
DONNA ABBOTT

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of...
DONNA ABBOTT

It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing.
DONNA ABBOTT

We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.
DONNA ABBOTT

Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together.
DONNA ABBOTT

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
DONNA SUMMER

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many ...
DONNA TARTT

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and...
DONNA SHALALA

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different ...
DONNA TARTT

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP car...
DONNA BRAZILE

When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certai...
DONNA GODDARD

No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about...
DONNA BRAZILE

We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. ...
DONNA GODDARD

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain...
DONNA BRAZILE

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.
DONNA BRAZILE

The chief stammered around and did not give me a direct answer.
DONNA MORROW

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The developm...
DONNA KARAN

I'm tired of 'tone at the top.' Sometimes I wish Boards and CEOs would just stop talking and do.
DONNA BOEHME

A true ethical culture reflects the better instincts of company leadership, and retaliation does the...
DONNA BOEHME

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
DONNA SUMMER

It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. ...
DONNA BRAZILE

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National E...
DONNA BRAZILE

Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succe...
DONNA BRAZILE

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. ...
DONNA SHALALA

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policie...
DONNA BRAZILE

She's the epitome of a point guard already. That doesn't happen often (with a sophomore). She was gr...
DONNA NICHOLSON

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him fac...
DONNA RICE

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling peopl...
DONNA BRAZILE

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired...
DONNA SUMMER

Food stamps are an investment in our future.
DONNA BRAZILE

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
DONNA MILLS

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these mos...
DONNA REED

My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd te...
DONNA BRAZILE

I have been asking for years for documentation from staff on why the current configuration is a good...
DONNA MILLS

As the civil rights struggle progressed, Americans responded to the justice of the cause, shedding l...
DONNA BRAZILE

It is crucial, in our evolution, to think for ourselves and to question authority. In this practice, be bold, be brave, while also being cognizant of the consequences.

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