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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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Tony Robbins

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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"

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Helen Keller

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Jesse Jackson

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– William Blake

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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

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

– Albert Einstein

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot