Readings, Quotes, and Shit

Exactly as the title says

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Don’t try to dazzle anyone with your intelligence; impress people with your straightforwardness.

—John Maxwell

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The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

—Chadwick Boseman

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You’ve got to smart small and work up to it.

—John Maxwell

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Important factors of influence

1. Character - who they are

2. Relationships - who they know

3. Knowledge - what they know

4. Intuition - what they feel

5. Experience - where they’ve been

6. Past Success - what they’ve done

7. Ability - what they can do

—John Maxwell

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The greatest discovery of my generation is the fact that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

—William James

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Among people you should be aware of your worth.

—Anton Chekhov

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Sometimes, life is like a dark tunnel: you can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving, you will come to a better place.

—Uncle Iroh

From “Avatar: the Last Airbender”

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Self-worth comes from within, b*tches.

—Maze

From “Lucifer”

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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.

—Uncle Iroh

From “Avatar: the Last Airbender”

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People say that we no longer play because we’re old, but in fact, we grow old because we no longer play. Don’t lose your inner child; don’t be childish, but stay young at heart. However small, however mundane these things that others normally take for granted, what matters is that we can always find reasons to be happy.

—Michael V

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The years teach much what the days never know.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

-Abraham Lincoln

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Who you are determines the way you see everything.

—John Maxwell

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People of real strength are as rare as gold, and if you find them, you should respond as if you had discovered a treasure.

—Robert Greene

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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A single thread in a tapestry, though its colors brightly shine, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design.

—From the song “Through Heaven’s Eyes”, from the “Prince of Egypt” Soundtrack