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"I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."
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Personal Development
"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
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Personal Development
"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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Personal Development
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."
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"Great dreams do not come to pass greatly at a twinkle of an eye, but you may see them happening at a twinkle of an eye. The best dream which survive greatly in reality takes great roots first before it grows in reality to bear great fruits. Delay is not death! Carefully and patiently nurture your dreams and make them happen distinctively in reality."
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Personal Development
"Step up your game and success will step up to you."
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Personal Development
"The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success."
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"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
Forgiveness
"Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
Spirit
"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
Education
"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."
Philosophy
"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
Change
"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
Literature
"I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up."
Life
"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
Emotion
"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."
Love
"Jeb is going to grow up to be the kind of man who spends his Saturdays teaching his little boy to ride a bike. (...) Charlie, on the other hand, will be off playing golf while his kid kills people on his Xbox. Charlie will be dashing and debonair, and he'll buy his kid all kinds of crap, but he'll never actually be there."
Parenting
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