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“courage was not the absence of fear, but the ability to walk into unknown territory despite it.”
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Samantha Young
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“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
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Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of find...more ” — Jim Butcher |
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Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey |
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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
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