If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. It was a fortune cookie.
Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself
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He who angers you controls you.
"It costs money to be stupid." My dad, after I had done something stupid and was forced to use all of my summer earnings to pay for it.
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
You might be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, but some people just don't like peaches.
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Be self-reliant, Live your life like there's no one looking out for you
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
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“Fearlessness is not courage, true courage is acting in spite of fear.”- Mark Twain
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Really like this one. It motivates me to do good because I want to. Not because I can make an Instagram selfie while doing so.
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Don't set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
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"You only need to do it once to understand." Context: My coach once said this after I was scared of trying some new tumbling moves and constantly kept giving up mid attempts. It got stuck to my head in a really interesting way, not only on gymnastics but on everything that I do. If I'm scared, bored, angry about something I need to do I just reflect on how I need to stop giving myself excuses and do the things I must. Right after he said that I did it. It was horrible, unbalanced, barely ended up on my feet. But I lost my fear of doing it.
“If it is to be, it is up to me.” 10x 2 letter words that have completely changed the way I take responsibility for my actions!
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Your mind will give up a thousand times before your body does. I went through a period of appalling mental health that culminated in agoraphobia, and that was the quote that had me leaving the house.
"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." - Einsten
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“The truth offends, so we lie and lie until we no longer believe the truth, but even then still it is there. Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid. And that’s how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.”
"If you've got one leg in the past and the other in the future then you're pissing on today." - Katya Zamolodchikova