#2 Hearts are flowers

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, 
even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers;
 that remain open to the softly falling dew, 
but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

-- John Paul Richter

#1 Top 20 Motivational Quotes For Women

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. -Maya Angelou

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened for us.  - Helen Keller

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. - Steffi Graf

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens ? a terrible thing, no one to blame. -Erica Jong