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Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Courage is simply the commitment to do the right thing even when it is difficult.”

Life Character Inspiration Purpose Motivation Courage Risk Commitment Meaning Right

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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“Only by making your legacy your aim can you summon the courage to act with conviction in the moment, whatever that moment may bring.”

Character Inspiration Life Lessons Motivation Vision Courage Perseverance Conviction Legacy Meaning

Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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“What if we could live a completely meaningless life full of pleasure and devoid of pain? Would we not be happy? Something deep within tells us no.”

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“Why do we so desire fame? Because we desire to matter.”

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“Whatever you find yourself doing at any moment is the most important thing in the world to you at that moment.”

Life Character Inspiration Desire Purpose Motivation Value Meaning Choice Worth

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“An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.”

Life Self Character Inspiration Motivation Advice Honesty Youth Meaning Potential

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“A lazy man often lacks the motivation to fight the very thing that has sapped him of his motivation.”

Life Character Wisdom Inspiration Purpose Motivation Passion Advice Meaning Laziness

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“A man long enough sedated may no longer even realize he’s being sedated, or want to.”

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“Entertainment is often just a cheap way to quench our natural thirst for meaning by encouraging us to exercise passivity when we ought to act with passion.”

Life Character Inspiration Purpose Motivation Passion Advice Entertainment Meaning Laziness

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“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”

Life Inspiration Purpose Motivation Passion Pursuit Meaning Endurance Passivity Fervor

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“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”

Life Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Wealth Fame Popularity Worth Anonymity

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“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”

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“Wealth and fame may be consequences of success, but they are not success itself. You want to be great? Great. Why?”

Life Inspiration Success Purpose Motivation Wealth Greatness Fame Popularity Worth

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“It’s not fair!” is the mantra not of the poor and oppressed but of the rich and spoiled. The poor and oppressed of the world don’t pout, “It’s not fair!”—they know the world too well to dare.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Motivation Opportunity Justice Poverty Injustice Oppression Meaning Fairness

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“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”

Life Character Inspiration Motivation Growth Humility Despair Tragedy Bitterness Persevere

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“You may be appalled by your world, but you must be gratefully appalled.”

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“Your life has come at the expense of a nearly infinite number of other potential lives that will now never get to be lived because you get to live.”

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“You have but one life. You could spend it taking stock of what others have and resenting it, or you could spend it taking stock of what you have and doing something with it.”

Inspiration Purpose Motivation Hope Opportunity Gratitude Despair Meaning Thankfulness Persevere

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“Categorizing yourself by either your victimization or your privilege fails to give any clarity to life’s fundamental question: What are you going to do with it?”

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“Wallowing in victimhood only demeans and paralyzes you. Don’t do it. Redeem it instead. Transcend it instead.”

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“A woman in labor never asks, “Why me?” because she knows both the cause of her suffering and its effect, and that sense of reason and purpose gives her the capacity to endure it.”

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“Once you know who you are, you need not fear being misunderstood, or isolated, or bullied. You won’t care whether others respect you, because you know who you are.”

Life Character Inspiration Motivation Loneliness Despair Respect Isolation Bullying Teen

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“Justice is the delusion of the self-entitled. To desire it is to desire a world that is not this world.”

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“Whatever your world is, you are alive, and an incomprehensible number of things had to happen just the way they did for that to be the case.”

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“Your aim has the power to turn every good into an evil or every evil into a good. Through it you interpret your past, give purpose to your present, and cast a vision for your future.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Evil Identity Aim Good Legacy Meaning

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“My best teachers showed me respect by refusing to share in my low expectations.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Teacher Teaching Advice Respect Quote Meaning

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“A goal is not the same thing as a wish. A goal is something you work toward; a wish is something you hope will happen to you.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Wish Goal Work Advice Value Meaning

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“Sometimes life’s most important moments begin with the casting of a seed, a small, uncertain act whose full significance becomes apparent only much later.”

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“Imagine living your life so indelibly that others remember your smile long after they’ve forgotten your name!”

Life Inspiration Purpose Motivation Advice Quote Perseverance Smile Meaning Name

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“Worthy goals are always hard.”

Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Goal Advice Value Meaning Worth Teen

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“If my family is the price of my success, then I am grateful to have had so little of it.”

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“Neither lion nor gazelle question whether it is just for the lion to catch and eat the gazelle or just for the gazelle to get away and let the lion starve.”

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“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”

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“Spend your life chasing justice and only one thing is certain: You will have spent your life.”

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“Only once you can truthfully say you are grateful for your victimization have you transcended it.”

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“There are many injustices that will simply never be made right, and to expect otherwise is to set yourself up to be consumed by frustration.”

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“To expect a hospitable world is hubris. Instead, expect the opposite. Expect a world that may destroy you at its whim at any moment.”

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“Entertainment is not necessarily evil, but it is seductive and addictive. It can easily become an end unto itself, an end without end.”

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“Be grateful for pain. Don’t ignore it or deny it. Don’t anesthetize yourself from it. Swallow it and make it a part of you.”

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“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”

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“When the storm rages in the dark night, a voice on the wind will ask, “Who are you?”, and the quality and depth of your answer will determine whether you stand firm or flounder.”

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“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”

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“Your moments of great risk are not yours alone. The decisions you make in those moments are of great import to a great many people—people of great import to you.”

Life Self Character Inspiration Motivation Choices Risk Identity Meaning Teen

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“You are not special, but you are unique.”

Self Inspiration Life Lessons Purpose Motivation Advice Meaning Uniqueness Teen Entitlement

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“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”

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“An essential part of figuring out who you are is taking your eyes off yourself and seeing everything that is not you.”

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“A teacher casts his work into the wind, knowing not where it will be blown, in hopes that a seed will land somewhere it can take root and outlive the one who cast it.”

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“What right do I have to the blessings I’ve received? None. They are not a right—they are a gift.”

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“It is no great accomplishment to take care of yourself—I’ve known children of ten or twelve who can do that. To become a true adult, you must become more than independent; you must become dependable.”

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