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#1

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

tags: discipline, inspirational

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#2

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

tags: lies, lying, trust

31596 likes

#3

“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

tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust

1113 likes

#4

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

tags: philosophy, tyler-durden

40 likes

#5

“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

tags: death-and-dying, oblivion

1246 likes

#6

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

31 likes

#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

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#8

“Now is the time for guts and guile”
― Elizabeth Taylor

40 likes

#9

“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

746 likes

#10

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

tags: identity, pretend

4091 likes

#11

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

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#12

“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

tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom

2713 likes

#13

“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

tags: atheism, mystery

416 likes

#14

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

tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien

3023 likes

#15

“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

424 likes

#16

“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

tags: inspirational

385 likes

#17

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

tags: inspirational

192 likes

#18

“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

129 likes

#19

“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

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12461 likes

#20

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

2848 likes

#21

“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

tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers

1131 likes

#22

“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

261 likes

#23

“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

171 likes

#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

tags: advice-quotes

50 likes

#25

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

184 likes

#26

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
― Frank Ocean

259 likes

#27

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

tags: life-lession, love, music, sad-but-true

100 likes

#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

tags: simpsons

26 likes

#29

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

tags: acceptance, change

126 likes

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