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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Shaming and blaming your kid isn't going to make them change. You can't change yourself. Would I love to be tall and blonde? Yes, but that's not going to happen. I'm always going to be short and dark-haired, maybe gray-haired now.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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.
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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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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
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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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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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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.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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The only way out is to go through.
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Kindness eases change.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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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.
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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.
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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
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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.
