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"Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love. There are reasons each of us are born. We have to find those reasons."
- Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale."
- Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."
- Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not."
- Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"While it is always best to believe in one's self, a little help from others can be a great blessing."
- Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Both of us have a lot of feelings we need to get out in the open. So if you want to take those feelings and smash somebody with them, smash me. Then we can understand each other better."
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood.
"What happens when people open their hearts? ... "They get better."
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood.
"What I am isn't important. Why is important."
- Lee Woo-Jin, Oldboy.
"All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
- The Puppet Master, Ghost in the Shell.
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
- Red, The Shawshank Redemption.
"Lust awakens the desire to possess. And that awakens the intent to murder."
- Old Monk, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring.
"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
- Über-Morlock, The Time Machine.
"I done something new for this fight! I done rassled with a alligator! That's right, I have rassled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale! I done hundcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail! That's "bad". Only last week, I murdred a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick! I'm so mean, I make medicine sick!"
- Muhammad Ali, When We Were Kings
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."
- Muhammad Ali, When We Were Kings
"Success is 99 percent failure."
- Soichiro Honda
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
- Akira Kurosawa
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson
"I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world."
- Sadako Sasaki
"Death is just another path, one that we all must take."
- Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings.
"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back. There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold."
- Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings.
"Not all those who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter.
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
- Albus Dumbloredore, Harry Potter.
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
- Albus Dumbloredore, Harry Potter.
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
- Albus Dumbloredore, Harry Potter.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Albus Dumbloredore, Harry Potter.
I should probably stop now. But finally...
Frodo: "I can't do this, Sam."
Sam: "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
Frodo: "What are we holding onto, Sam?"
Sam: "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."
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''There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it." - Marva Collins
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." -Anthony Robbins
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." - Sholom Aleichem
"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly." - P. J. O'Rourke
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Brilliant, thank you for the quotes so far. They'll be added soon.
Keep them coming!
