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	Things video games have taught me and others
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	If you are facing new challenges, obstacles, or enemies, you’re going the right way
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	No one blames you if you have to check the map
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	Always come prepared 
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	Everyone is worth talking to 
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	Even if you don’t get money for something, you always get experience
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	Don't hold on to too much crap, you’ll fill up your inventory 
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	Don’t be deterred if a challenge was too much for you. Go back, level up, increase your skill, and try again 
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	~~~
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	Other random quotes 
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	You say amateur as if it is a dirty word. It comes from the Latin Amare, which means to love. To do things for the love of it. 
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	People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider webs. It’s not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go. 
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	Amateurs built the ark. Pros built the Titanic. 
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	Aut inveniam viam aut faciam. I shall either find a way or make one. 
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	Did you ever realize how much your body loves you? It’s always trying to keep you alive. It’s making sure you breathe when you sleep, stopping cuts from bleeding, fixing broken bones, finding ways to beat the illnesses that might get you. 
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	Just because the past is painful doesn’t mean the future will be. 
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	The only person you should be worried about being better than is the person you were yesterday 
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	You can be the sweetest peach, but there will be people who don’t like peaches
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	One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. 
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	If there is ever a tomorrow where we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. 
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	Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red. 
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	Yes, you will rise from the ashes. But the burning comes first. For this part, darling, you must be brave. 
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	“For old times sake” is beautiful. There used to be love there; that’s enough reason to do it. 
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	The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come. 
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	Even if things get really hard, I’m still me, and I am going to be okay. 
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	You are under no obligation to make sense to anyone else. 
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	Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. 
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	Everything works out in the end. If it’s not working out, it’s not the end. 
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	Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, worst days give you lessons, best days give you memories. 
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	The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. 
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	And those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who couldn’t hear the music. 
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	Life is more than just being alive. 
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	Everybody is a genius. If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. 
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	Die with memories, not dreams. 
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	Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?
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	How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy
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	I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not
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	Nothing is missing. It’s just missing in the places you expected it to be, and you forgot you could go look somewhere else. 
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	Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. 
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	Raise your words, not your voice. Rain grows flowers, not thunder. 
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	I don’t know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night. 
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	Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. 
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	Hope is like the sun. If you only believed in it when you could see it, you’d never make it through the night. 
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