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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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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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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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia E. Butler
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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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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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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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.
Jessica Bird
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Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
Emily Yoffe
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won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille Clifton
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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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This is not just about homosexuality or homosexual acts -- it's about an agenda and subculture that is in direct conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church, ... Goodbye, Good Men: How liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church.
Michael Rose Black Uhuru
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It was really important for me to create fun and trendy pieces for the plus-size market.
Ashley Nell Tipton
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The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Norman McLaren