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“You’re going to fail a lot before things work out. Even though you’ll probably fail over and over and over again, you have to try every time. You can’t quit because you’re afraid you might fail.”
- Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
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“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin 
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inspirational-fiction · 7 months
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“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Humans can choose the kind of life they want to live. The important thing is that you choose life and then live.”
- Naomi Hunter (Metal Gear Solid)
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“ ‘Truth is stranger than fiction’, as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary I can’t help crying and then think to myself ‘Fiction can’t compete with this.’ But when I mentioned this to a veteran Manga artist friend of mine, he said ‘Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all.’ His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.”
– Arakawa Hiromu, 2005 (Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 12)
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inspirational-fiction · 7 months
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book.
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inspirational-fiction · 8 months
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“It’s not about changing the world. It’s about doing our best to leave the world… the way it is. It’s about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.”
- Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
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inspirational-fiction · 9 months
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“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” ― Madeleine L'Engle.
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inspirational-fiction · 9 months
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“Every world has its end. I know that’s kinda sad but… that’s why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time that we have. At least that’s what I figure.”
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic and the Black Knight)
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inspirational-fiction · 10 months
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“A great love is a lot like a good memory, when it’s there and you know it’s there but it’s just out of your reach it can be all that you think about. You can focus on it and you can try to force it but the more you do the more you seem to push it away but if you’re patient and you hold still well maybe, just maybe, it’ll come to you.”
- Leonard Church (Red vs Blue)
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inspirational-fiction · 10 months
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“We’ve all been trying to help people right? And sometimes you fuck up. Sometimes people get hurt, sometimes you act and you do things and you’re wrong and if you let the fact that you fucked up stop you from trying to help again that’s the real mistake. I’ve fucked up so many times, you can’t be afraid to help because yeah you might hurt but you also might help, you just have to keep helping. Don’t be afraid.”
- Aubrey Little (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty)
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inspirational-fiction · 11 months
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“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
-Uncle Iroh (Avatar the Last Airbender)
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inspirational-fiction · 11 months
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“Those who learn from success grow prideful. On the contrary… those who learn from failure run to extremes. You can’t learn anything from total affirmation, or from total denial. And the more you think you have the nastier you get.”
- Tenjin (Noragami)
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inspirational-fiction · 11 months
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“You don’t have to destroy the past to have a future.”
- Agent Washington (Red vs. Blue)
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inspirational-fiction · 11 months
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“I do know loss, know what it can do to you, make you feel like your life’s not worth nothing, that all the joy and pleasure in the world has been locked away- just not an option for someone like you anymore… but one day, believe it or not, you’re gonna laugh at a joke, you’re gonna go swimming and you’re gonna smile in the sunlight, you’re gonna pet yourself a good dog and it’s gonna make you feel happy. You ain’t always gonna feel like this. Other people maybe but not you. How do you get there, how do you get to that point? I don’t know, but you are gonna get there and we’re gonna keep you safe.”
- Sheriff Zeke Owens (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty)
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inspirational-fiction · 11 months
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“A lesson without pain is meaningless because gaining anything worthwhile requires sacrifice. But if you can overcome that pain and achieve your goal… you can achieve a Fullmetal heart, and that’s irreplaceable.”
- Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
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