Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
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Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
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It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
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Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
