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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brené Brown
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Octavia E. Butler
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia E. Butler
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
Mary Oliver
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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.
bell hooks
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
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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.
Barbara Pym
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver
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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
Octavia E. Butler
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
David Suzuki
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Lucille Clifton
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin