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

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I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.

Louise GlüCk's Popular Quotes

Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does …

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The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

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I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

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What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

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At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

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From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

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Intense love always leads to mourning.

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