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  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #3
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #4
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
    Think of what you can do with that there is”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “My big fish must be somewhere.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea



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