What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

- Frank Herbert in Dunes


This is one of my favorite quotes, and this book is the best I've read this year :tiphat:
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"Though times never last but though people do" -Robert H. Schuller
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The most menial work can be a piece of art when done by an artist.
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

I love the idea: No work has a form, but which is given by its doer.
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In all probability the errors of the great mind exceed in number those of the less vigorous one.
- Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From

My love for quotes is endless. Choosing one quote from my horde of quotes is delightful frustration.
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." - Steve Jobs
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"When you want something, the whole universe conspires in order for you to achieve it."

Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist
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One of the oldest old-school takedowns in human history:
Gilgamesh opened his mouth and answered glorious Ishtar, ‘If I take you in marriage, what gifts can I give in return?
What ointments and clothing for your body? I would gladly give you bread and all sorts of food fit for a god. I would give
you wine to drink fit for a queen. I would pour out barley to stuff your granary; but as for making you my wife - that I will
not. How would it go with me? Your lovers have found you like a brazier which smoulders in the cold, a backdoor which
keeps out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison, pitch that blackens the bearer, a water-skin
that chafes the carrier, a stone which falls from the parapet, a battering-ram turned back from the enemy, a sandal that trips
the wearer. Which of your lovers did you ever love forever?
-Gilgamesh, The Epic of Gilgamesh
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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. "

-Mandy Hale.
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I absolutely love collecting quotes, it's hard to choose just one favorite but I always find myself coming back to Maya Angelou's wise words, 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.'
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"even though the journey is marked with unknowns, May you always remember all the ways you have grown."
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“Don’t take too long, lad. Weigh it up, then decide. Nothing like a long period of indecision to create stress. Then you’re no good to anyone.”
-A character named Ryan in Country Calling (The Shangri-la Trilogy Book 1) (p. 51, Kindle Edition) by Winsome Board.
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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
Voltaire
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

from the poem of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
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“Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.”
Heidegger
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