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  • #1
    Johann Hari
    “But creative people seemed mostly uninterested in rewards; even money didn’t interest most of them.”
    Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

  • #2
    Paulo Coelho
    “We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Jordan Belfort
    “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
    Jordan Belfort

  • #5
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #6
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Do Not Lie to Yourself

    We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #11
    David  Mitchell
    “You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #12
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #13
    Michel de Montaigne
    “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #14
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #16
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who fears losing has already lost.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: fear

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “A true man does what he will, not what he must.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost



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