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    Jess C. Scott
    “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: cyberpunk, elven, elves, family, friends, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humans, inside-ourselves, insight, insightful, life, life-lessons, love, meaning, meaning-of-life, nq-mobile-omar-khan, omar-khan-nq-mobile, reflection, reflective, social-commentary, social-issues, social-science, society, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series
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    Donna Goddard
    “When we love someone, we make it our business to protect them.”
    ― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
    tags: courage, courage-quotes, guardian, love, love-quotes, protection, protective, protectiveness, spiritual-quotes, spirituality
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    Katie McGarry
    “I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. "
    "I know you'll try."
    I can do more than try.”
    ― Katie McGarry, Long Way Home
    tags: contemporary, katie-mcgarry, protective, thunder-road, young-adult
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: blessed, christ-like, concerned, holy, knowing, no-coincidences, protective, rare, real, sacrafice, sacraficing, selfless, truest-love, unselfish
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    Paulo Coelho
    “She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: love, protection, support
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4082 likes

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  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
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    George S. McGovern
    “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
    ― George McGovern
    tags: anti-war, battle, death, old-men, peace, soldiers, war, youth
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    Laini Taylor
    “He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fighter, life, survivor
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    Sierra D. Waters
    “No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
    ― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
    tags: advocates, america, anxiety, anxiety-attack, anxiety-disorders, arizona, child-abuse, control, corruption, crime, crime-and-punishment, domestic, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, enable-abuse, family, family-drama, family-relationships, fighter, government, growing-up, growth, healing, hope, hopeful, hopeful-heart, hurt, injustice, inspire, justice, justice-system, law-enforcement, lawmakers, laws, life, living, memoir, memories, overcoming, panic-attack, panic-attacks, pedophile, physical-abuse, police, politicians, politics, post-traumatic-stress, power, powerful-story, powerless, ptsd, quote, quotes, rape, rape-culture, rape-of-a-child, rape-survivor, raped, red-tape, safety, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, south, southern, survival, survive, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, truth, united-states, united-states-of-america, violence, violence-against-women, youth
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    Emily Lloyd-Jones
    “She became her own knight; she collected those broken promises and whispered apologies and fashioned them into armor”
    ― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold
    tags: fighter, strong-woman
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    Kailin Gow
    “My daughter isn’t going to grow up as fragile flower, incapable of taking care of herself. She will train as she fights, and she will fight as she trains. She will be raised to be total bad ass. Because everyone loves a bad ass. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”
    ― Kailin Gow
    tags: badassery, fathers-and-daughters, fighter, independence, self-defense, strong-women, toughness, training
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  • #13
    “You're still on the right track. It just has a few more curves than you thought.”
    ― Kierra C.T. Banks
    tags: fighter, journey-in-life, optimisism, overcoming-adversity-quotes, resilient, success-quotes
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    Criss Jami
    “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: clever, courage, courageous, crazy, death, definition, hero, heroes, heroic, heroism, inspirational, life, living, living-life-to-the-fullest, motivational, soldier, stand, stand-out, success, warrior, winning
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  • #15
    “I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine
    tags: chapter-1, fear, hunt, page-8, six, soldier, warrior
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    Lori Goodwin
    “Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it thru hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors.”
    ― Lori Goodwin
    tags: ptsd, soldier, survivor, war, warrior
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever?

    You're goddamn right they didn't.

    They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.

    He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
    tags: death, soldier, vietnam, war
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  • #18
    “Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.”
    ― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
    tags: love, marriage, soldier, war, world-war-ii
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  • #19
    “a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.”
    ― James A. Michener, Poland
    tags: battle, black-swan, chance, michener, poland, soldier
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    Oliver Gaspirtz
    “Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all people need to get through the day. Imagine a unit of soldiers under heavy enemy fire. They are told by their superiors to hold their position, even in the face of overwhelming fire power. The soldiers are being told that reinforcements are on the way, and that thought alone gives them the hope and courage to continue fighting, even if ultimately the reinforcements never arrive. I think some people simply need to believe that God is sending them reinforcements, to get through another day.”
    ― Oliver Gaspirtz
    tags: against-all-odds, atheism, belief, belief-in-god, belief-in-self, courage, courage-under-fire, faith, faith-in-god, fighting, god, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, placebo, religion, soldier, soldiers, under-fire, war
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    Mike Norton
    “War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
    ― Mike Norton
    tags: buddhist, christian, citizen, communism, compassion, country, dalai-lama, dependence, experience, forgiveness, humanitarianism, islam, muslim, peace, rape, religion, resilient, socialism, soft, soldier, strong, the-pope, tolerance, tolerant, training, war, world
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  • #23
    Walt Whitman
    “poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”
    ― Walt Whitman, Drum Taps
    tags: bravery, civil-war, compassion, comrade, comradeship, death, friendship, hero, life, loyal, medical, sacrifice, save, soldier, soldiers, war
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    Steven Pressfield
    “I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. The calling of arms, I have followed from boyhood. I have never sought another.

    I have known lovers, sired offspring, competed in games, and committed outrages when drunk. I have vanquished empires, yoked continents, been crowned as an immortal before gods and men. But always I have been a soldier.”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War
    tags: alexander-the-great, life, soldier
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
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    Dan Millman
    “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”
    ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
    tags: give-up, love, warrior
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
    tags: battle, life, solemn, truth, war, warrior
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    Claudia Tan
    “I was born to be a fighter. But being a fighter does not mean that I have to live in rage. When I fight, I live in my emotions. But maybe... my emotions don't have to trap me anymore.”
    ― Claudia Tan, Perfect Addiction
    tags: claudia-tan, fighter, perfect-addiction, romance, wattpad
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    Claudia Tan
    “You're his beacon of light. You give him a sense of direction in his life. A purpose. But is it worth it? Just being his friend? Not being able to love him the way you want to?”
    ― Claudia Tan, Perfect Addiction
    tags: claudia-tan, fighter, perfect-addiction, romance, wattpad
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  • #30
    “When they (the men, the scavengers)
    come for you, do not give yourself
    to them so easily.

    Wear your strength like armour,
    fight like a beast.
    Do not let them tell you that
    you belong to them.

    Be fearless.
    Be a lion.
    Be like lava.
    Rip them apart,
    and burn their bones.

    And when you are done,
    tell the world that
    you belong to no man.
    That you are a lady,
    a warrior,
    a tsunami,
    and you belong only to yourself.”
    ― Zaeema J. Hussain, The Sky Is Purple
    tags: empowerment, empowerment-of-women, female-empowerment, females, feminism, patriarchy, self-love, strength, tsunami, warrior, womanhood, women
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  • #31
    “Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor”
    ― Vignesh S
    tags: fighter, loneliness, survivor
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