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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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not 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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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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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
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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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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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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 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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We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.
Tré Cool Green Day
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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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Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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?
Ursula K. Le Guin