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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We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.
Jakaya Kikwete
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Charles V
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When I was 17, I was about 5'6''.
Dylan O'Brien
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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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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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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
Charles Eames
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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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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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
John Lubbock
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
Alice Walker
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Dalai Lama