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“The thing I’ve learned over the years about advice is that no one can accurately predict the future, but we all think we can. So advice at its best is one person’s limited perspective of the infinite possibilities before you. People’s advice is based on their fears, their experiences, their prejudices, and at the end of the day, their advice is just that: it’s theirs, not yours. When people give you advice, they’re basing it on what they would do, what they can perceive, on what they think you can do. But the bottom line is, while yes, it is true that we are all subject to a series of universal laws, patterns, tides, and currents—all of which are somewhat predictable—you are the first time you’ve ever happened. YOU and NOW are a unique occurrence, of which you are the most reliable measure of all the possibilities.”
― Will Smith

“Rat!' he found breath to whisper, shaking. `Are you afraid?'

`Afraid?' murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. `Afraid! Of him? O, never, never! And yet--and yet-- O, Mole, I am afraid!”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal. It is the indecisiveness that killed his son.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“A garden is never Finished, and nor are you: Become, I think, a garden again, And never, like a garden, cease.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story