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#1

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: courage, decision, goodkind

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#2

“But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

tags: confessor, magda-searus

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#3

“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
― Terry Goodkind

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#4

“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

tags: life, terry-goodkind

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#5

“Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: confessor, magda-searus

19 likes

#6

“Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

tags: power, terry-goodkind, truth

21 likes

#7

“It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: confessor, magda-searus

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#8

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71691 likes

#9

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21522 likes

#10

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3190 likes

#11

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84840 likes

#12

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

1387 likes

#13

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

3367 likes

#14

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: communication, psychology

3182 likes

#15

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: ghosts, haunt

2581 likes

#16

“How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed

tags: love, self-confidence

105 likes

#17

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears

2987 likes

#18

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

4148 likes

#19

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: cowardice, morality, pip

1192 likes

#20

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: memory, regret

867 likes

#21

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

401 likes

#22

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

5296 likes

#23

“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

237 likes

#24

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

166 likes

#25

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

760 likes

#26

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

806 likes

#27

“Life is made of so many partings welded together”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

181 likes

#28

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5837 likes

#29

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity

1582 likes

#30

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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