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

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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

Barbara Kingsolver's Popular Quotes

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

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I prefer to remain anomalous.

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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.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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.

- Barbara Kingsolver