Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. -- Marcus Aurelius

History is written by the victors.

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Be killed by the marines, or come be a pirate with me.  Which do you choose?

(Luffy to Zoro, One Piece ep. 3)

But you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.

- Edward, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 

It would be more a wish to destroy you so that I may see all the pieces of your beauty and spirit laid out before me, awaiting my decision of whether to devour you or scatter your essence to the elements.

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 I have an almost constant internal battle on a daily basis, longing to save the ones I love and at the same time longing for something to destroy.

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 "...if there is something holding you back, you must press on until you have trampled it to dust.  Of course, simply pressing on will not in itself reveal to you the direction you must take: all you can do is go forward until you collide with something."

--Natume Soseki-- My Individualism

"Having been born into the world, I had to find something to do.  But what that something was, I had no idea.  I stood paralyzed, alone and shut in by a fog, hoping that a single ray of sunlight would shine through to me, hoping more that I could turn a searchlight outward and find a lighted path ahead, however narrow.  But where I looked, there ( Read more... )

 No tree has a branch so foolish as to fight among themselves.

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