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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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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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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Kindness eases change.
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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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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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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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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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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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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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 tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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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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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
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won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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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.'