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“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
“Now go forth and shatter every convention.”
― Lobizona
― Lobizona
“Why settle for being a son of the system, when you can mother a movement?”
― Lobizona
― Lobizona
“A real choice doesn't have conditions. A real choice is free.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
“Stop thinking about the damn wall!” he said. “There is no wall. There are only bricks. Your job is to lay this brick perfectly. Then move on to the next brick. Then lay that brick perfectly. Then the next one. Don’t be worrying about no wall. Your only concern is one brick.”
― Will
― Will
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