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

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You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you have to generate a response. And then some of the feelings you have are so intimate and visceral, words don't really do them justice.

Lupita Nyong'o's Popular Quotes

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

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You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty i…

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I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

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Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

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We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

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You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

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What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

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You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

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