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.
Brené Brown
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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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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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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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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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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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 world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.
Errico Malatesta
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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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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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The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem to think they should nudge me or bump into me as they go past. It was this incredible performance that used to amuse me. In the early days, people were drawn towards us like they'd be drawn towards a car smash...There is a definite relationship between that fanaticism and the fan that, as a performer, you expose more of yourself, of the undercurrents of your personality. Most rock personalities subdue that or choose not to explore it.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
Sean Lennon
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Vos quoque qui fortes animas, belloque peremptasLaudibus in longum vates dimittitis aevum,Plurima securi fudistis carmina, Bardi.
Lucan
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
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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
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I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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The internet is just a passing fad.
Bill Gates
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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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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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Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people.
Hartmut Michel
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Salman Rushdie
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
Jacki Weaver
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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