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    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Holly Black
    “I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: jude
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    N.M. Sanchez
    “I wish I wasn't such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.”
    ― N.M. Sanchez, Initial Meeting
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: all-good-things-come-to-an-end, beautiful, beautiful-moments, beauty, holding-on, life, life-changing, life-experience, memories, moments, sad-but-true, special-moments, special-times, time, time-flies, yearning
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
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    Masashi Kishimoto
    “Give up trying to make me give up”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto
    tags: giving-up, make-me, naruto
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4139 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly
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    Randy Loubier
    “I considered myself a Christian. But looking back on it, I guess I was more of a Kluggist. I was klugging my own spirituality. It was years before I would find out how dangerous that was.”
    ― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea
    tags: christianity, gods-power, guidance, healing, love, reflection, religion-and-philoshophy, spirtitual-growth
    182 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore, strength, unity
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    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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    Dan Brown
    “God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: prayer, serenity-prayer, strength
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
    tags: aims, courage, creative-process, empowerment, experience, guenter-grass, memory, record-of-life, strength, writing
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    Masashi Kishimoto
    “The weaker you are the louder you bark.
    -Tenten”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Band 11
    tags: barking, strength, weakness
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: chapter-21, courage, death, endurance, joy, life, optimism, steadfastness, strength, suicide
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Chris Matakas
    “Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: endurance, grit, jiu-jitsu, martial-arts, toughness
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    Chris Matakas
    “On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: confidence, faith, growth, jiu-jitsu, martial-arts, process, systems
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    Chris Matakas
    “When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: confidence, courage, jiu-jitsu, kindness, martial-arts
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  • #28
    “If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.”
    ― Carlos Gracie, Sr.
    tags: bjj, bjj-competitions, brazilian-jiu-jitsu, jiu-jitsu, martial-arts
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    Chris Matakas
    “After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: belt, growth, jiu-jitsu, martial-arts, rank
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    Chris Matakas
    “To achieve anything we must grind, but to enjoy anything we must flow.”
    ― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
    tags: bjj, flow, grind, jiu-jitsu, martial-arts
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