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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My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
Bonnie Tyler
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I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie
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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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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brené Brown
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Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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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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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
Florence Henderson
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
Aaron Huey
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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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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
J. D. Hayworth
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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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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris