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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach is a great book for women of all ages. There are inspirational quotes and stories that help women reflect to create a more productive and balanced life. We often share some of these quotes on twitter. (We have not included every quote.)

Each month there is a theme that drives the quotes and essays. We hope to share these quotes with you in the upcoming months. We hope you enjoy. If you like them please share with others and visit back for more inspirational quotes for women.

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September

“September the harvest month…Summer is over and Autumn has arrived.” Cynthia Wickman

1. “Autumn to winter, winter to spring, spring into summer, summer into fall – So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.” Dinah Mulock Craik
2. “Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it to understand it.” Rainer Maria Rilke
3. “At work, you think of the children you left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.” Golda Meir
4. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” Buddha
5. “The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is Real.” Marge Piercy
6. “Work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gibran
7. “Oh, the secret life of man and woman – dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been exploited to its fullest.” Zelda Fitzgerald
8. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” Hellen Keller
9. “You gain strength , courage and confidence by every experience in which you  really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about.” Anne Tyler
11. “Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and wait.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
12. “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” Samuel Johnson
13. “A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the reason for which we sought it has passed.” Ellen Glasgow
14. “It was the first operatic mountain I climbed, and the view from it was astounding, exhilarating, stupefying.” Leontyne Price
15. “We all must pay with the current coin of life for the honey we taste.” Rachel Blumstein
16. “The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who did not have a chance.” Merle Shain
17. “Life itself is the proper binge.” Julia Child
18. “Flops are part of life’s menu and I’m never a girl to miss out on a course.” Rosalind Russell
19. “Oh it’s delightful to have ambitions…And there never seems to be any end to them – that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”  Anne Shirley
20. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo (Walt Kelly)
21. “My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, did all within the circle move.” Edmund Waller
22. “I would like to learn or remember, how to live.” Annie Dillard
23. ”When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.” Oprah Winfrey
24. “Do what you love, and the money will follow.” Marsha Sinetar
25. “I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success.” Gloria Vanderbilt
26. “Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge
27. ”Only the heart know how to find what is precious.” Fydor Dostoyevsky
28. “There is a time for everything, And a season for every activity under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
29. “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.” Eda LeShan
30. “Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you’re off that’s all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh