Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

Mark Lawrence's Popular Quotes

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits o…

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We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

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Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

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When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

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A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

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When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply tha…

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No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

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