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

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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that…

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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee …

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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the …

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Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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To be a person is to have a story to tell.

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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

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