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

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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

Isak Dinesen's Popular Quotes

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee …

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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that…

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the …

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Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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To be a person is to have a story to tell.

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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

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