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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You grow up and become a man by experiencing victory and defeat, by doing difficult things and shedding tears.
It's all right to cry! Just overcome it!”
― Eiichiro Oda

“Niin hän siellä kököittää kuin rajapyykki metsässä; mutta kas kun hän palaa kirkosta takaisin ja ehtii viimein kotoansa pihalle, niin tuiskuavalla vauhdilla, tultatuiskuavalla vauhdilla riennetään suoraan kohden kammarin kaappia taas; ja nytpä ukko "maistaa että pohja paistaa”
― Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän Veljestä Novel by Aleksis Kivi, Finnish Classic Literature