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#1

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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#2

“We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”
― R.A. Salvatore

tags: carpe-diem, life, passion, truth

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#3

“If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.”
― R.A. Salvatore

tags: advice, perseverance, writing

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#4

“Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

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#5

“The rogue has suffered much. He needs someone to remind him of why he once believed in a good path...”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: direction, life, path, rogue

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#6

“Killing me will not end your grief. It will only create more of it.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: death, grief, kill, loss, murder

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#7

“I have not the foresight to predict everything, Rogue.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: foresight, prediction, premonition

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#8

“Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: decisions, fine-line, fork-in-the-road, justice, path, road, vengeance

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#9

“Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: armor, caution, trust

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#10

“What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: longing, love, lover, wistful

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#11

“You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: identity, lie, life, persona, role

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#12

“Do what you will. I do not fear death.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: courage, death, fear, heroism, will

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#13

“After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism?”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: chivalry, hope, optimism

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#14

“We are horse folk, and that means more than we think it does.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: hopeful, horse, levee

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#15

“Was it worth it? My death, I mean. Did I die for something worthwhile?”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: chivalry, death, purpose

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#16

“No, no. By all means, lead on. Nothing gets the blood pumping more than hunting down the biggest threat to the realm and deciding we'll just wing it.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: hero, jaspur, rogue, sarcasm

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#17

“Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

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#18

“What of your sins, Rogue? If the hero encountered you today, would he spare you a date with his sword?”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: hero, justice, rogue, sins

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#19

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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#20

“Who I really am, you don't want to see.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue

tags: cryptic, depressing, jaycent, loneliness, prince

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#21

“All armor has its weaknesses. That doesn't mean you should stop wearing it.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

tags: advice, armor, general, rayhan-mendeley, weakness

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#22

“I was a terrible prince. After my parents were murdered, that place reminded me of nothing but ghosts and shackles. Life as a rogue suits me much better, but even I cannot stand idly by and let our people suffer.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Lost Prince of Nevaharday

tags: jaspur, jaycent, lost-prince-of-nevaharday, murder, rogue, shackles

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#23

“The loss of her and of Nevaharday shattered my soul into what I thought were irreparable pieces. The pain was unbeara¬ble, but I dreamt of her often. Those dreams were my solace.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Lost Prince of Nevaharday

tags: jaspur, jaycent, lost-lost, love, prince, rogue, unbearable

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#24

“All of his life he had dreamed of being a hero, but it wasn’t until this moment that he realized how much weight that kind of glory carried.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Lost Prince of Nevaharday

tags: aspirations, challenges, glory, hero, lost-prince-of-nevaharday, sadikaye, weight

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#25

“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

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#26

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: 9-11, 9-11-01, 99-percent, atheism, evangelicalism, fox-news, future-prediction, globalism, media, media-barons, media-of-the-united-states, mysticism, nostradamus, occupy-wall-street, outsourcing, prediction, predictions, proud-ignorance, reality-tv, reason, rupert-murdoch

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#27

“I learned that there is healing in expressing the ugly ... Sometimes the only way to pull the weeds inside your soul is to vomit out your vitriol.

The exorcism of deeply harbored pain eased my feelings of anxiety. It tempered the physical illnesses bred by emotional pain and taught me just how tied one's mental and emotional health is to their physical state.

There is a lot of unseen optimism beyond the murky depths of my darker musings. Smiles and laughter and joy and intimacy have grown in the empty spaces left by things long-held but finally released. And while the tsunamis and the waves still sometimes break against the quieting waters of my soul, I am learning to ride them with more grace and less water in my lungs.”
― Elizabeth Carlton

tags: anxiety, depression, grief, healing, heartache, journaling, mental-health, wellness, writing

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#28

“Recently, I read a stack of old journals I had stored in a box. They held the musings of different versions of myself stretching from age nine to 29. As I read through them, I realized how foreign the words on those pages felt. I didn't hear my own voice in those journals, but rather someone else's; someone distinctly different from the person I am today.

And I realize that who I was is not who I am. Who I am is a state of consciousness that changes with time and experience. More than that, it changes with every wave of emotion as it comes and goes. To be is a fluid experience.

The joy of being is learning how to embrace that flow.”
― Elizabeth Carlton

tags: emotional-intelligence, personal-growth, philosophy, self, self-awareness

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#29

“A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

tags: green-day, humor, musician

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