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"People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too."
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"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."
"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."
"Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there."
"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."
"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."
"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."
"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."
"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."
"Pure heart begets pure thoughts."
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"Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to discredit those with whom they disagree rather than dissect the issues for what they really are. I liken it to the predictable ad hominem attack, which is about as transparent as those who so ridiculously claim to know what's in the heart of another."
"You love the word love but you don't really love and you don't want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do."
"At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people."
"Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you."
"In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time."
"I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having."
"In a fit of anger he had said to her, "You'll always be miserable," to which she thoughtfully replied, "Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...you know, people like you."
"Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I'm often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns."
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