Raggedy Ann Doll Quotes & Sayings

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

She is often the broken-winged one, who does everything all wrong until people realize she's been doing it ... pretty right all along. She's the poor girl who never dressed right, who had torn hose, and they were all baggy around her ankles. She's the Raggedy Ann of the sophisticated world, who pulls it out at the last minute, flies by the seat of her pants, cackling all the way home. She is the late bloomer, the late start, the autumn bush, the winter holly. She is Baubo, all the classical Greek goddesses. She is the old girl who still blushes, and laughs, and dances. She's the truth teller, maybe that people hate to hear, but they learn to listen to. She is not dumb and in some ways is not shrewd. She works on passion, and the doll in her pocket, and the intuition that leads her into and through all the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you. — Paul O'Brien

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. — James M. Barrie

Denial, anger, acceptance — Gayle Forman

Vision (know what you want)
Passion (know why you want it)
Commitment (know how you're going to get there) — Renee Rearden

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. — Michael Tilson Thomas

Are you a politician?
I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents. — Daniel Alarcon

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together? — Benjamin Harrison

Emma felt like a Raggedy Ann doll accidentally mixed in with the Barbies. — Meg Gray