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

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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Rita Mae Brown's Popular Quotes

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly …

- Rita Mae Brown

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

- Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

- Rita Mae Brown

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

- Rita Mae Brown

Some people live life and others talk about it.

- Rita Mae Brown

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we h…

- Rita Mae Brown

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

- Rita Mae Brown

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

- Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown