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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not 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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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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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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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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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 am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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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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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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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
Jean Vanier
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere.
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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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
Octavia E. Butler
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
Haruki Murakami
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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