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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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Personal Development
"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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Personal Development
"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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Personal Development
"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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Personal Development
"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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Personal Development
"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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Personal Development
"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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Personal Development
"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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Personal Development
"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."
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Personal Development
"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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Personal Development
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"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
Growth
"Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain."
Grief
"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
Patience
"Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"
Strategy
"Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible."
Discovery
"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
Perception
"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
Discipline
"Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that."
Strategy
"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
Identity
"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."
Culture
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