The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
BRAD MELTZEROur fathers never leave us. Ever.
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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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As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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…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.
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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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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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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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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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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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Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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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 worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
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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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