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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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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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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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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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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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
Wendell Berry
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
E. L. Doctorow
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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Etty Hillesum
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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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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James A. Baldwin
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When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
Julia Roberts
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Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
Ray Bradbury
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I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.
William O. Douglas