I am always on the lookout for great quotes. Over the years I have amassed quite the collection. Below is a sample of some of my favorite ones.
— Manos
CINEMA / TELEVISION
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You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
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Pocahontas
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True power is not something that comes to those who seek it, it's something that finds those who deserve it."
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Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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You think that if I don't have arms, I can't pray? A prayer comes from the heart."
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Isaac Netero
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You should enjoy the little detours in life. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want."
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Ging Freecs
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An apology is a promise to do things differently next time, and to keep the promise."
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Ging Freecs
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Don't die until you die."
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Gyro
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Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember."
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Spirited Away
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Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
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Rafiki
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See the world with eyes unclouded by hate."
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Mononoke Hime
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You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose."
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Mononoke Hime
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Never forget what you are, for the rest of world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you."
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Tyrion Lannister
MUSIC
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There is nothing here, but what's here's mine."
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Placebo
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How we survive is what makes us who we are."
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Rise Against
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Too much blood has flown from the wrists of children shamed for those they choose to kiss."
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Rise Against
VIDEO GAMES
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Stand on the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. Their silence is your answer."
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Javik
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So steel yourself and remember there can be no bravery, without madness."
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Darkest Dungeon
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Do not be sorry. Be better."
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Kratos
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No king rules forever, my son."
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Terenas Menethil II
WRITERS
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Not all those who wander are lost."
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
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Paulo Coelho
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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Oscar Wilde
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey."
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Ernest Hemingway
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What lies before us and what lies behind us, are tiny matter as compared to what lies within us."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True nobility is not in being superior to your fellow man, but in being superior to your former self."
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Ernest Hemingway
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No good deed goes unpunished."
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Oscar Wilde
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You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."
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Stephen Covey
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These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."
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Najwa Zebian
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay; be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."
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George Crabbe
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Show respect to people who don't even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours."
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Dave Willis
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
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Dr. Seuss
PHILOSOPHY
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Plato
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Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough."
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
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Aristotle
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
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Aesop
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No matter where you go, there you are."
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Confucius
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Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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Thomas Paine
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Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μοι τῇ θύρᾳ."
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Plato
OTHER
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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Proverb
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To whom much is given, much is expected."
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Luke, 12:48
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Memento mori."
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Proverb
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
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Winston Churchill
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It is after midnight we remember the things we try our hardest to forget."
— Unknown
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Character is what you are in the dark."
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Dwight L. Moody
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God, please give me the courage to change what I can, the strength to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to tell them apart."
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Serenity Prayer
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The rich are those who dared."
— Unknown
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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."
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Robert Breault
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If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."
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Thomas Jefferson
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Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it."
— Unknown
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Never attribute to malice what that is adequately explained by stupidity."
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Aphorism
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
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Yousuf Karsh
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Do you want to be right, or do you want to learn?"
— Unknown
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Manners maketh man."
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William Horman
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Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ."
— Proverb
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Suum cuique."
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Latin motto
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
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Will Rogers
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In vino veritas."
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Latin motto