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To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE ↗

— Brendon Burchard

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Your best teacher is your last mistake. ↗

— Ralph Nader

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Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#life-lessons #taking-chances #life

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#masochism #life

Why am I always looking at life through a window? ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #life

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#heart #life #life

What do you think?" he asks. "I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?" "I see them every night," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

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