The Talk Quotes

“It is the greatest victims who make the greatest villains, and the greatest victims who make the greatest heroes.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Courage is simply the commitment to do the right thing even when it is difficult.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“It is no great accomplishment to take care of yourself—I’ve known children of ten or twelve who can do that. To become a true adult, you must become more than independent; you must become dependable.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Goals are, by definition, linked to sacrifices. A goal is a focus, and one cannot have a focus without excluding that which is outside that focus.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“We can allow life’s tragedies to make us bitter and resentful, or we can see them as tests of our character and humility, allowing them to make us ever thankful, not only for a life but for this very life—for my life and your life.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Imagine living your life so indelibly that others remember your smile long after they’ve forgotten your name!”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Spend your life chasing justice and only one thing is certain: You will have spent your life.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Perhaps you are no rock climber, but faced with a big enough rock, you will have to become one.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“When everyone we know is a king or a queen, it is easy not to notice each other’s crowns, except when it benefits our self-pity or vanity to compare them.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“It is only when you can admit you may be wrong and are willing to grapple with uncomfortable ideas that you stand to grow.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A hero helps you resolve the tragedy of your existence in a world that owes you nothing, not by destroying the obstacles you face but by showing you how to take them on with integrity.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“The best way to respond to a hero is to honor him, and the best way to honor a hero is to become a hero yourself.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Entertainment is often just a cheap way to quench our natural thirst for meaning by encouraging us to exercise passivity when we ought to act with passion.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A man long enough sedated may no longer even realize he’s being sedated, or want to.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A lazy man often lacks the motivation to fight the very thing that has sapped him of his motivation.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Entertainment is not necessarily evil, but it is seductive and addictive. It can easily become an end unto itself, an end without end.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What if we could live a completely meaningless life full of pleasure and devoid of pain? Would we not be happy? Something deep within tells us no.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Forget yourself, and you may just find what you were made to be and do.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“An essential part of figuring out who you are is taking your eyes off yourself and seeing everything that is not you.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You can’t conjure up moments of clarity at will, but you can make a habit of quieting yourself and giving them the opportunity to occur.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions