Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

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As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably t…

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If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

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For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

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If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

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If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west st…

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But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect'…

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Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

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I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the…

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That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

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