Alice Walker

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Empowerment • Growth • Happiness

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Acceptance • Contentment • Desire

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Beauty • Courage • Fear

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Ambition • Growth • Improvement

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Confidence • Empowerment • Growth

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Nature • Religion • Spirituality

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Death • Life • Optimism

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Acceptance • Change • Growth

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friendship • Growth • Rights

You know how big love is? Love is big. Love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Love • Relationships

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Freedom • Growth • Hope

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Beauty • Nature • Perfection