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When he was preparing for a big fight, his trainer would take him mountain climbing to build up his hand strength and endurance. Max’s favorite piece of advice? Don’t look down until you reach the summit. Galen had asked why, thinking Max would give him some inspirational shit about the satisfaction of seeing how far he’d come at the end or something. Instead, Max had snorted, “Because it’s fucking scary. ↗

— Christine Bell

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Brains are like muscles, you can hire them by the hour. The only thing not for sale is character. ↗

— Eugene Scalia

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Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with. Frankie wanted to be a force. ↗

— E. Lockhart

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Far more important than your actual ability is what those who follow you believe you can do. ↗

— Jennifer Bradbury

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For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

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As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours. ↗

— Mark Helprin

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Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains—a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they’re asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it’s firing off every hour or two while they sleep; even when all the sights and sounds are complete random nonsense, their brains just keep on trying to assemble it into something sensible. They try to make stories out of it. It’s complete random nonsense with no possible correlation to the real world, and yet they turn it into these crazy stories. And then they forget them. All that work, coming up with these stories, and when they wake up they forget almost all of them. But when they do remember, then they try to make stories about those crazy stories, trying to fit them into their real lives. …They change what their stories mean. They transform things so that the same memory can mean a thousand different things. Even from their dreams, sometimes they make up out of that randomness something that illuminates everything. …Even if the vast majority of them are wrong, even if ninety-nine of every hundred is stupid and wrong, out of those thousands of ideas that still leaves them with a hundred good ones. That’s how they make up for being so stupid and having such short lives and small memories. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window. ↗

— Mod Sun

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إن الطريقَ شاقة، إن الطريقَ ليست مفروشةً بالزهور والورود، إن الطريق مليئةً بالأشواك.. لا.. بل إنها مفروشة بالأشلاء والجماجم، مزينةً بالدماء، غير مزينةٍ بالورودِ والرياحين.. إن سالكه لن يفوته المنصب وحده، ولن يفوته الجاه وحده، ولن تفوته السيادة وحدها في هذه الأرض، ولكن سيتحمل قولاً ثقيلاً، وسيتحمل جهدًا ثقيلاً، وسيجتاز طريقًا ثقيلاً.. ↗

— سيد قطب

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This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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