Words of Wisdom

Various words of wisdom picked up.

The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you!

- Rocky Balboa

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Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How true, how true.

Unfortunately for me, I have been hurting all this while.

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I feel like a jigsaw puzzle missing a piece. And I’m not even sure what the picture should be.

- Dexter

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Lies

the average person tells 4 lies a day, and 1460 a year. a total of 88,000 by the age of 6. and the most common lie is “i’m fine”.

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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”

- Neil Gaiman

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The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don’t. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get…

- Bella, Notting Hill

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“The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

- Rocky Balboa

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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

- Steve Jobs

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