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“I’ve seen you together in our world and this one. You make a striking couple. He’s intelligent, deliberate, and honorable.
You cannot step twice in the same river. Change is inevitable and relentless, and I have found that it does not matter how slowly progress happens so long as it does happen.
people change for two reasons. Either they have learned much, or they’ve been hurt much.
People fear change, however, and it requires much coaxing. Not because it is difficult, but because the future is uncertain.
It is easy to forgive a child for being afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when one is afraid of the light.
Understanding what was happening wasn’t keeping it from happening.
You will have knowledge, my young friend. There is no greater fruit.”
It takes years to build trust and only moments to shatter it.
Fear limits you. It keeps you from becoming who you were meant to be.
We each have motives for what we do. You’ll probably find, as I have, that most people are petty, dishonest, and self-interested by nature. But that does not mean you have to be.”
That duty belongs to the one who wears the crown. The one whose knees shake but do not buckle under the weight of it.
no real accomplishment comes without error and shortcoming.
