Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 01, 2017
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989  
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
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Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy  
I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.
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Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09  
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008  

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