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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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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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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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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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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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
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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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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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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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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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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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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.
