Thurman P. Banks Jr. Quotes

#1. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.

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#2. I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

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#3. I would rather live a life with a hundred failed dreams created on my own terms, than one successful reality, created on the terms of another.

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#4. Every time life gives you a million reasons why you should quit, give it a million and one reasons why you never will.

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#5. Of all the regrets I've had in life, and there are plenty, having loved too much will never be one of them.

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#6. In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

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#7. You can have the finest pen, typewriter, or computer, but without a set of eyes that truly see the world, you might as well have none of it.

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#8. We so often spend our time searching for answers that we allow the questions to linger on, even when faced with the greatest truth
that some things just aren't ours to know.

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#9. Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.

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#10. If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.

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#11. While the choices we make matter, it's what we make of our choices that matters the most.

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#12. Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

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#13. I have done good things in life. I have done bad things in life. But the beer has tasted great during both.

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#14. I fear we have become a society more interested in writing the quote of another, than living the lesson, and creating a quote of our own.

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#15. I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.

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