Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 13, 2026
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988  
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)  
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990  
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996  

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