“Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― The Princess Diaries
― The Princess Diaries
“Be who you are and be that well.”
― Introduction to the Devout Life
― Introduction to the Devout Life
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