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#1

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”
― Pearl Buck

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#2

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

tags: artists, change, reality, writers

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#3

“He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim ... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One

tags: batman, crime, hero

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#4

“If only Jason could have reached out to us. Any one of us. He could have saved himself. But you know what? Some people don't want to be saved. Because saving means changing. And changing is aways harder then staying the same. It takes courage to face yourself in the mirror and look beyond the reflection. To find the you that you should have ben. The you who got derailed by crul childhood events. Events that took your life's natural trajectory and twisted it. Changing it into something unmaginable... or even incredible...... giving you thecourage to embrace your birthright, you destiny, and finaly realize... that you ARE BATMAN.”
― Tony S. Daniel, Batman: Battle for the Cowl

tags: batman, nightwing

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#5

“And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.”
― Scott Snyder, Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year – Secret City

tags: batman, death, redhood, violence, wisdom

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#6

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

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#7

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

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#8

“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”
― Mark Obmascik, Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

tags: 14ers, climbing, colorado, mountaineering, mountains

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#9

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on

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#10

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on

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#11

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#12

“We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.”
― Mark Millar, Superman: Red Son

tags: batman, mind, red-son, superman, weapon

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#13

“[At his parents' graves] I've brought a young man -- a boy, actually -- to stay at the house. He's … lost his parents at roughly the same age that I … That I lost you. I don't know what will happen. I don't see myself as any sort of father figure. But … I think I can make a difference in his life.”
― Jeph Loeb, Batman: Dark Victory

tags: batman, bruce-wayne, dc-comics, dick-grayson, robin

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#14

“You weren't the perfect father but that's okay because -- probably nobody's a perfect father. No family's perfect, either. I was lucky. I was privileged. Not because of the big house and the money, but because you gave me a lot of yourself. You taught me, you showed me, you encouraged me -- you never lied to me and you never demanded that I be anything I’m not. I didn’t imitate you because you insisted that I do so, but because I wanted to. Of all the men I knew, you were most worthy of imitation. Then I blamed you for letting me be who I was. Pretty dumb. You and Alfred gave me a home and you gave me what we don't mention. The L word. You were the best family I could have had. Thanks.”
― Dennis O'Neill, Nightwing (1995) #4

tags: batman, dc-comics, dick-grayson, family, nightwing, robin

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#15

“It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.”
― Batman Begins

tags: batman, batman-begins, define-yourself

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#16

“It is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn.”
― The Dark Knight

tags: batman

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#17

“When we feel pain in one time zone—meaning past, present, or future—we just switch to another time zone rather than change, because change brings so much uncertainty and so much instability and so much fear to people.”
― Timothy Ferriss

tags: growth, personal-development, timothy-ferris, tools-of-titans

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#18

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#19

“Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences.” Kevin Kelly”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

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#20

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

tags: blank-page, writers, writers-on-writing

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#21

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

tags: criticism, help, positive-thinking, praise

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#22

“But why?” Maddie sounded like someone who had been waiting her entire life to ask that question. She looked like someone who would wait a lifetime more for an answer.”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

tags: ally-carter, not-if-i-save-you-first, why

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#23

“She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

tags: ally-carter, not-if-i-save-you-first

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#24

“I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

tags: belief-systems, jordan-peterson, society

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#25

“You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.”
― Neil Gaiman, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

tags: batman

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#26

“I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One

tags: barbara-gordon, batgirl, batgirl-year-one, batman

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#27

“There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is... the viscously long battle between world views. And eventually -Finally- no matter how much it may hurt, Truth wins out. Every. Damn. Time.”
― Peter J. Tomasi, Batman: Arkham Knight Vol. 3: The Official Prequel to the Arkham Trilogy Finale

tags: arkham, arkham-knight, batman, comics, heroes, history, villains, wisdom

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#28

“Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up”
― Scott Snyder, Batman, Volume 5: Zero Year – Dark City

tags: batman, getting-back-up

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#29

“We all look for meaning behind the tragedies that befall us. And sometimes the meaning is there. But sometimes, Master Bruce, terrible things just happen. No sinister plots. No secret societies. They just happen.”
― Batman vs. Robin, Alfred

tags: batman, inspirational, tragedy

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#30

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War

tags: captain-america, right, truth

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