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"Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do."
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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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Personal Development
"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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Personal Development
"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."
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Personal Development
"Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter."
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"Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord."
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"But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand."
Grief
"Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength."
Strength
"A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience."
Youth
"Le Marais?''It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay."
Paris
"Don't you think it's actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you've done all that stuff?''Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?''I'm just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you'd led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.''I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you're stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.' He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. 'So if you're asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks."
Adventure
"She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute."
Romance
"Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith."
Faith
"There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove."
Time
"So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark."
Love
"You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises."
Living
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