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

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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

Amy Tan's Popular Quotes

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

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The life we receive is not always what we choose.

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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rej…

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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning,…

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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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