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Our Top 22 Quotes of 2022

This past year, we highlighted beautiful and powerful words every morning here at Inspiring Quotes, from the minds, voices, and pens of a myriad of great thinkers and creators. Through their words, we explored everything from philosophy to satire, classic literature to stirring speeches. It’s been a wonderful year of insight, encouragement, comfort, and of course, inspiration. As we get ready to turn the page to another new year, here are our favorite featured quotes from 2022.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson

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We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.
Rania Al-Abdullah

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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams

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Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama

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Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Henry Miller

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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Oscar Wilde

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What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.
Masami Saionji

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil

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You must believe that your past is not your future.
Gayle Carson

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Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Eckhart Tolle

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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon

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It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend.
Zadie Smith

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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves

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Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II

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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver

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