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“Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are”

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John Wooden is a legendary basketball player and coach, born on October 14, 1910, and passed away on June 4, 2010. His achievements and influence in the basketball world have made him one of the greatest figures in basketball history. more

“But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.”

Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

“Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.”

Want Important Important Things Cliche

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”

Mother Sound Iron Georgia Cairo

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

Want Love Needs Dream Attention Needed Ego Addiction Mutual Indispensable I Hate You Choke Free Time

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I can connect Nothing with nothing”

I Can Wasteland Waste Land

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”

Lying Slow Down

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

Humans Kind Art Sometimes Artist Difficult Human Beings Sacrifice Office Ordinary Art Is Instruments Innate Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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