…as your father, my instinct is to protect you … Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
BRAD MELTZERGreatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.
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Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Greatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us – or admitting we can’t do it all ourselves.
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Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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Here’s what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
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We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.
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