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

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.

Barbara Kingsolver's Popular Quotes

I prefer to remain anomalous.

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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

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Downstream is always someone else's up.

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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li…

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

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