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

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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

Barbara Kingsolver's Popular Quotes

I prefer to remain anomalous.

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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

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Downstream is always someone else's up.

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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li…

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

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