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Charlotte Safavi, Writer, Journalist, Stylist

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Charlotte Safavi has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The British Sunday Times Magazine, House Beautiful, Victorian Homes, and Better Homes and Gardens.

She also writes a tea column for Inns magazine and regularly blogs for The Huffington Post. Articles from her blogs have been featured online in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and on National Public Radio.

Born in London and educated at Oxford University, her heritage is Iranian, and she now resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and son. For more information, visit www.charlottesafavi.com

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette