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Rudy:
“In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.”
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Rocky Balboa:
“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”
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The Pursuit of Happiness:
“Don’t ever let somebody tell you, you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.”
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Good Will Hunting:
“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.”
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Author: Ralph Ellison
Book: Invisible Man
Year: 1952
Quote: “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
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When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. ~ Unknown
Three Choices – Quote
Author: Joseph Conrad
Book: Heart of Darkness
Year: 1899
Quote: “I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself not for others — what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
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Author: Jules Verne
Book: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Year: 1871
Quote: “As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
Book Quote #10
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates
The Secret of Change – Quote
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Book: Man and Superman
Year: 1903
Quote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Book: The Road
Year: 2006
Quote: “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.” ~ Alexis Carrel
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” ~ Max Frisch
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” Robert A. Heinlein
“Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.” ~ Helen Fisher
Jealousy – Quotes
Author: Stephen King
Book: Different Seasons
Year: 1982
Quote: “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
