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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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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?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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!”

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

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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.”

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

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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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“You exist to be cared for only to a point, and with a purpose: that one day you might care for others.”

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“You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.”

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“It is the greatest victims who make the greatest villains, and the greatest victims who make the greatest heroes.”

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“Life is a risk. Life is also punctuated by moments of great risk, and your identity and legacy are shaped by how you respond in those critical moments.”

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“Don’t fear high expectations; embrace them. Choose to do hard things.”

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“Sit around too long thinking about how to begin and you’ll consume all your provisions while your ship rots in the harbor.”

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“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”

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“The best way to respond to a hero is to honor him, and the best way to honor a hero is to become a hero yourself.”

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“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”

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“Your aim is not just what you train your eye on; it is how you train your eye.”

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“Only by making your legacy your aim can you ensure that your essential goals, those that stir from your very essence, remain uncorrupted by a million other, lesser goals that constantly vie for your attention.”

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“If you wish to leave a legacy, the things you do cannot matter only to you.”

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“Our freedom is not a right we have won but a privilege conferred on us by those who sacrificed much that we might have it.”

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“The first thing we are given, life itself, is the privilege of all privileges. Whatever else life brings us, having it at all should fill us with humility and gratitude.”

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“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”

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“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”

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“Easy things do not call us to great action, because they are too easy to require great action.”

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“The great lie of youth: that it will last.”

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“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”

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“Success and failure are derived not from anything you possess but rather by the things you do. Your successes and failures rest on your actions and your actions alone.”

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“With each passing moment, an infinity of potentialities become just one reality, your life narrowing with each tick of the clock.”

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“Time: life’s inexorable weapon of humiliation.”

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“Life is hard because it cannot last, because it must not last. Its very definition is that which lies tenuously between nonexistence and nonexistence.”

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“We are terrified by this life because it is the only one we know we have, and it is dying from the moment it is birthed.”

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“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”

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“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

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“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”

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