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“I would like for you to be patient and forgiving of others-and when you are impatient, to be forgiving of yourself.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“I am a teenage boy aflame with health, strong and virile and pounding with energy. But I get older. Every second ages me. [...] Each death around me adds a decade. Each atrocity, each tragedy, each small moment of sadness. Soon I will be ancient.”

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;

“We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.”

“The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the ‘opinions’ of others.”

“If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.”

“I knew who he was: I would recognize that scent anywhere. Unmistakably Ethan. I’d found the boy.”

“You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?” “No!” cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. “With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.” His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. “Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.”

“Look, I’m human. It’s hard to be fair sometimes. We don’t always feel the right thing, do the right thing.”