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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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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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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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 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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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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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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The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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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.
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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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The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
