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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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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Kindness eases change.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
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The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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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.
