“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” — Albert Camus
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” — Gandalf | Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.” — Gandalf | Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
“I will either find a way or make one. Do not tell me what can’t be done. Only cowards speak of limits. If you hesitate you are already lost. If you wait for permission, you will die waiting. There is always a path for those ruthless enough to carve it from the stone.” — Hannibal Barca
“I wish it need not have happened in my time”, said Frodo. “So do I”, said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
“Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.” (Proverb)
“Only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and thus will be.” — Keating | Dead Poets Society | Tom Schulman
“A man who must say ‘I am King’ is no true king.” — Tywin Lannister | Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.” — Edward Abbey
“Don’t be serious, be sincere.” — Alan Watts
Cynical people are easier to control. Cynical people become apathetic and don’t do anything. So hope. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world. You know why? It’s the only thing that ever has.
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“No good story happens from things going right. My granddad always said this. The greatest gifts in life are not in the plans. They are in the detours. There is no way I could plan my way into being in the stage. I have failed a lot more and a lot longer than I have succeeded. I didn’t originally get the role in top gun that I auditioned for, and it has worked out better than I could have ever imagined. So if you want your life to be a great story, like a great movie, you want it filled with adventure, comedy, romance, action, thrills, when you go out there and things inevitably don’t go according to plan, just remember that’s when your movie’s plot is just getting interesting. That’s when your protagonist is being tested. That’s when the writers are working overtime to give the audience some nail-biting drama. Enjoy things not going according to plan. If you knew the ending, it wouldn’t be worth the watch. No good story happens from things going right.” — Glen Powell
“It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.” — Rachel Dawes | Batman Begins | Christonpher Nolan
“Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.” — Jake Sully | Avatar | James Cameron
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.” — Carl Jung
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” — Marianne Williamson
“You can be the master of your fate, the captain of your soul, but you have to realize that life is coming from you and not at you.” — Timothée Chalamet
“The secret ingredient is nothing. To make something special you just have to believe it is special.” — Mr. Ping
“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"" — Howard Beale
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” — Tyrion Lannister | Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love—illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.” — Peter Baelish | Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin
“Three great men sit in a room: a king, a priest, and a rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword kill the other two. Who lives? Who dies? Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” — Varys | Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin
“He died but not at the bottom.”
“Only by embodying this indifference to death can one live. One who fears defeat can never win.”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it, he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.” — G.K. Chesterton
“Dying to win and risking death to win are very different.” — Satoru Gojo | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami