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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle. ↗

— J. Sterling

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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! ↗

— Brian Tracy

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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden) ↗

— Jim Butcher

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