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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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Personal Development
"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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Personal Development
"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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Personal Development
"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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Personal Development
"Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect."
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Personal Development
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
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Personal Development
"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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Personal Development
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."
Justice
"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
Art
"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."
Grief
"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
Advice
"I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on."
Healing
"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."
Pain
"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
Perseverance
"My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed."
Destiny
"I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home."
Simplicity
"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."
Perseverance
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