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  • #1
    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Courtney Schafer
    “Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.”
    ― Courtney Schafer, The Tainted City
    tags: courage, fear, inspriational, victory
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Victor Hugo
    “The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: decision-making, life
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    Nathan Long
    “Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.”
    ― Nathan Long, Jane Carver of Waar
    tags: kicking-ass, winning
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    Terry Brooks
    “The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.”
    ― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara
    tags: choices-and-consequences, free-will, prophecy
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Terry Brooks
    “If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”
    ― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara
    tags: choices-and-consequences, social-responsibility
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  • #9
    Sun Tzu
    “Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons”
    ― Sun Tzu
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  • #10
    Joe Dever
    “Doubt not your purpose nor your strength.”
    ― Joe Dever, The Prisoners of Time
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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  • #11
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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  • #12
    “In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.”
    ― Dannion Brinkley, Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received
    tags: life-and-death, living-life
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  • #13
    George Carlin
    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
    ― George Carlin
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  • #14
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
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  • #15
    Laurel Dewey
    “You want to live?
    Yes!
    Then quit thinking you're gonna die!”
    ― Laurel Dewey, Protector
    tags: courage, life, strength, strength-through-adversity
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    Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
    “Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.”
    ― Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times
    tags: challenges, comfort-zone, inspirational, life, risk
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  • #17
    Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
    “A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.”
    ― Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times
    tags: adversity, challenges, confidence, resolve, strength-through-adversity
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  • #18
    Francis of Assisi
    “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
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    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place. If you want to believe in something like Fate, she's a capricious character. Sometimes she stand there blocking the doorway you were born to pass through, and sometimes she takes you by the hand and leads you through the minute you poke your nose out. And the stars gaze down and keep their counsel.”
    ― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star
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  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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  • #21
    Helen Keller
    “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Helen Keller
    “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: effort, optimism, overcoming
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  • #23
    Courtney Schafer
    “I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.”
    ― Courtney Schafer, The Tainted City
    tags: hand-grenade, horse-shoes, life-and-living
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  • #24
    Courtney Schafer
    “Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.”
    ― Courtney Schafer, The Tainted City
    tags: action, courage, focus, persistence
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  • #25
    Dennis Lehane
    “He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
    tags: self-lies, society-thinking
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  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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  • #27
    “I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it

    Morpheus, The Matrix”
    ― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script
    tags: matrix
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  • #28
    “You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

    Morpheus, The Matrix”
    ― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script
    tags: matrix
    19 likes



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