Toni Sorenson

"If you want to be strong challenge yourself to something that makes you feel weak."

"There’s still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."

"Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness."

"If you could see into a woman’s heart you’d be shocked at the cracks and chasms of self-doubt, fear, and pain it holds. It’s a wreck and yet it manages to love like it’s never been broken."

"Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again."

"The origin of the word gender means to bring forth and to sort or class. Somewhere along the way it was decided that a baby girl was second-class to a baby boy. That’s just not true or right. By Divine design one gender cannot exist without the other. We are partners in life. When can we start acting like we can’t live without each other…because we can’t?"

"A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated."

"What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all."

"Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage."

"A wise woman invests her time and doesn’t squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back."

"Intuition is a woman’s gift that comes packaged in responsibility. If we don’t change the world for good, who will?"

"A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty."

"Women can do it all but that doesn’t mean they should have to."

"Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us."

"My mother smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. Before she smoked her first cigarette, she was free to choose whether or not she would smoke. After awhile, her freedom reverted to Satan—so it would seem. The choice was no longer hers—so it would seem. Her mind and body were attacked with nicotine cravings that got so bad she would sometimes sacavage through garbage cans for butts when she’d run short on full cigarettes. I watched, baffled at how something so small and so disgusting to me could have such power over my mother. That’s the thing about addiction—it binds us one choice at a time. That’s also the good news about addition—you can unravel the hold it has on you—one choice at a time."

"We all want to be happier, more financially secure and to experience more rewarding relationships. We all dream of making something more of our lives. A mountain trail is a terrific place to make our biggest, boldest, brightest dreams come true."

"Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart."

"Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love."

"Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship?” “Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag."

"Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you."