Cheating Death
April White
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The interesting thing I've learned about best friends is that you can have more than one. I have two. One I love with passion, the other I love with complete affection. Archer is my heart, my soul, my reason, and the sum of my experiences, and Ringo is laughter and adventure and strange wisdom that answers the questions that wakes me up at two a.m.”
“One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.”
“To live in the moment is vastly different than living for it. To be truly present as life unfolds around one is to take fullest advantage of being alive.”
“The power to compel is not the same thing as leadership, and one does inspire the other. You are not a leader, Walters, you are a bully and a coward of the worst kind. the fear you believe you inspire is merely the fear in which you constantly live, and it undermines the very leadership you profess to have. Strip a bully of his pulpit and he becomes a cowering, quivering thing... You will never lose the fear because it defines you, and the very things you seek to annihilate will be those which ultimately destroy you.”
“One does what one must to survive. Life is the only possible antidote to death, and living fully is the only way to counter the senselessness of loss.” I was overwhelmed by her words, and I held my hand out to her. She squeezed it in a moment of pure understanding, then she let go and we turned to face the guys. Ringo was close enough to have overheard our conversation, but Tom had wandered off toward the trees. I caught Ringo’s eyes, and he gave me a small, sad smile. I straightened my spine, took a step forward, and then another step. I supposed that’s how a person got through the things that stopped them in their tracks. Take the first step, and then the next, and eventually, momentum”
“My blood runs just as red as yours does, and I love and hope and dream just like you do. we are not born better or worse than anyone else, we're born human, and we build ourselves up from the same ground floor”
“Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.”
“Leaving something of yourself for others to experience and remember is sometimes the greatest excuse to live a life that’s more than just crossing the distance between birth and death.”
“I'm a student of 'istory, which is a bit of the same thing. We learn it so we don't repeat it. Ye've seen things now that no one would believe, and ye'll 'ave to live with the knowledge. There's good in what ye've learned, but there's danger in it, too. It'll be the mark of yer character 'ow ye choose to use what ye know.”
“I find that being oneself is an excellent choice, as everyone else is already taken.”
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Book Keywords:
path, hate, choices, cowardice, experiences, true-self, human, oneself, values, leadership, life, fear, journey, history, best-friends, equality, bullying
