“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran · The Prophet, 1923
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Inspiration Quotes
120 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl, 1947
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C.S. Lewis
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“The day asks nothing grand of you. It only asks that you show up honest and leave something a little better than you found it.”
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“Walk away from anything that requires you to pretend you feel fine.”
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“Stop asking permission to take up the space you were given.”
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“You are allowed to outgrow the story other people wrote about you.”
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“The version of you that apologized for existing was never the real one.”
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“Teach a person one true thing and they might remember it. Show them why it's true and they'll carry it the rest of their life.”
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“Work does not interrupt inspiration. Work is what inspiration looks like from the inside.”
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