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"Listen Anna, if we don't believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there's no hope for us. We're going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas."
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"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."
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Personal Development
"Why is there never enough time to pursue my dreams? Yet, I have time to browse memes, laugh at cats doing silly things, and stare off into the distance. My dream is to do what I love and yet I still don't pursue that dream. When we fear failure we allow ourselves to fail every day by not pursuing our dreams."
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Personal Development
"When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny."
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Personal Development
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."
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Personal Development
"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."
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Personal Development
"Things are always given to us when we need them (Acheron)." "That's so not true," Wulf said. "Actually it is. You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours (Acheron)."
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Personal Development
"You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow's peace out of today's crisis."
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Personal Development
"There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive."
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Personal Development
"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."
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Personal Development
"If you have strength, why won't you work?"
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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."
Equality
"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."
Loneliness
"I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: that the ties between Nelson and his wife are bitterly close, and never to be broken in their lives. They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.Nelson is about to leave his wife; he will never leave her. She will wail at being rejected and abandoned; she does not know she will never be rejected."
Relationship
"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."
Friendship
"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
Maturity
"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this."
Politics
"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."
Greatness
"Women often get dropped from memory, and then history."
History
"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
Borrowing
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
Reading
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