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"I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids."
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"Never do what the devil provokes you to do."
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Personal Development
"If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death."
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"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."
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"Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid."
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"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
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"Stepping out and stepping up can be an intimidating experience, especially in social situations where the outcomes are unpredictable and uncertain. Have you ever been reluctant to . . . Say "no?" Request help? Ask for a raise? Stand up to a bully? Talk about tough topics? Confront a friend or spouse? Speak up and share your opinion? Begin a conversation with a stranger? Deliver a presentation or speak in public? Talk about the "white elephant in the room? Befriend people who are much different than you? Make sales calls because you don't want to be rejected? Approach a new group of people at a networking event? Go to an event by yourself where you did not know anyone?"
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"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
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"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."
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"The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter."
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"Hey!' I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. 'I was talking to him!'Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. 'No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters."
Humor
"We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly..."
Relationship
"Doors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn't fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home."
Fantasy
"But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out."
Fate
"After months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap."
Happiness
"There's always time for tea."
Peace
"Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it."
Nature
"Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives."
Fear
"Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that."
Time
"This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?"
Truth
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