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

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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

Betty Smith's Popular Quotes

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

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The world was hers for the reading.

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As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrow…

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Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even thoug…

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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions…

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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

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Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

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