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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” – Darth Vader (Star Wars)
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou
“Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?” – Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
“Never doubt that you are powerful and valuable and deserving of every change in the world to pursue your dreams.” – Hilary Clinton
“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.” – Padme Amidala (Star Wars)
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
“Rebellions are built on hope.” – Jyn Erso (Star Wars/Rogue One)
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
“Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Never tell me the odds.” – Han Solo (Star Wars)
"No amount of money has ever bought a second of time.” - Tony Stark (Marvel/Avengers: Endgame)
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
“Without justice, there can be no love.” – bell hooks
"Understanding you does not mean that I agree with you.” – Tech (Star Wars/The Bad Batch)
Time and tide wait for no man.
Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and you will be applauded every step of the way.” – Kamala Harris
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
"How is never as important as why.” - Namor (Marvel/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? – Rumi
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. – Buddha
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression – W.E. . DuBois
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. – Carol Burnett
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss
“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi
“It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."- Dr. Emmett Brown, Back To The Future
"Me, I always tell the truth, even when I lie!"- Tony Montana, Scarface
"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
“On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.” – Kevin Flynn/Clu, Tron
“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.” - Fran Lebowitz
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - Westley, The Princess Bride
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” - Anthony Burgess
“Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.” - Conor Oberst
“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.” - The Ancient One (Marvel/Doctor Strange)
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. – Audre Lorde
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.– Bayard Rustin
“I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.” - Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
“We are all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” - Andrew, The Breakfast Club
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” - Baltasar Gracian
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” - Phyllis Diller
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.” - Chinese Proverb
“When a camel is at the foot of a mountain, only then judge its height.” – Indian Proverb
“Bad gas travels real fast in a small town.” – Wayne from Letterkenny
“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.” – Kristen Wiig
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” – Mark Twain
“Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” – Barbara Gittings
"I'll sleep when I'm dead.” - Warren Zevon
“How can I be lost if I’ve got nowhere to go?” -Metallica
"If the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?” – Taylor Swift
“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” -C.S. Lewis
“Learning is creation, not consumption.” -George Couros
“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible and entirely ignored.” -David Levithan
“If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping”. - Ralph Green
“Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it? If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, you’re probably doing it wrong.” – Ted Lasso
“It’s useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” – Frodo Baggins
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates
“In politics, it’s what isn’t said that matters.” – K.J. Parker
“If you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” – Tupac Shakur
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.” – Alfred Hitchcock
“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.” – Lise Meitner
“Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” -Charles Baxter
“The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valéry
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." - Sylvia Plath
"You don't have to be perfect to be amazing." - Unknown
"You can't change who you are, and you shouldn't have to." - Laverne Cox
"The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions." - James Baldwin
"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all." - Zora Neale Hurston
“As always in life, people want a simple answer… and it’s always wrong.” – Susan Greenfield
“Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” -Charles Baxter
“You have to be odd to be number one.” -Dr. Seuss
"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity." - George Takei
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." - Morticia Addams