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Posted 1 month ago
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham

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Posted 1 month ago
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand

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Posted 1 month ago
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.
Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

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Posted 1 month ago
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaccable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

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Posted 1 month ago
Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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Posted 1 month ago
You shall love your crooked neighbor with you crooked heart.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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Posted 1 month ago
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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Posted 1 month ago
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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Posted 1 month ago
Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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Posted 1 month ago
…Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer. I’m sure some of you do not like lecture classes, but as you have probably noted, I’m not as young as I used to be. I would love to spend my remaining breath chatting with you about the finer points of Islamic history, but our time together is short. I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit of history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?
John Green (Looking for Alaska)

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