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  • #1
    “The shortcut is a lie.”
    Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #4
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #5
    Banksy
    “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
    Banksy

  • #6
    Derek Sivers
    “If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.”
    Derek Sivers

  • #7
    “Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.”
    Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life

  • #8
    Elizabeth Taylor
    “Now is the time for guts and guile”
    Elizabeth Taylor

  • #9
    Orson Scott Card
    “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
    Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

  • #10
    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  • #11
    “Everyone draws the line of what's acceptable just beneath what they're doing themselves.”
    Tom Scott

  • #12
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #13
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #20
    Victoria Schwab
    “I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
    V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

  • #21
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #22
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #23
    Joe Abercrombie
    “The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.”
    Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

  • #24
    “Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses.”
    Frank Ocean

  • #25
    “Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.”
    Frank Ocean

  • #26
    “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
    Frank Ocean

  • #27
    “When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.”
    Frank Ocean

  • #28
    “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
    Grandpa Simpson”
    Abe Simpson

  • #29
    C.G. Jung
    “We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
    C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul



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