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

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Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

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.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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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