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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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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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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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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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.
Picabo Street
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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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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.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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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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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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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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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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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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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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
Wendell Berry
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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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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin
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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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We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
Gabor Mate