J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
  Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
  The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
  The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

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  Lying, Adventure, Hands

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• The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

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  Jesus, Mean, One Day

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

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  Adventure, Dragons, Ifs

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• How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

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  Moving, Heart, No Turning Back

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• It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

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• The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

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  Mean, Purpose, Knowledge Of God

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• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

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  Lying, Future, Adventure

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• True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

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  Stories, Matter, Fresh Start

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

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  Hope, Optimistic, Fighting

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• Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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  Self, Heroism, Preservation

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• All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

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  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

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  Government, Important, Bankers

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, 1981.

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• Above all shadows rides the sun.

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  Shadow, Sun, Finches

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.888, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

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  Pro Life, Abortion, Fellowship

  "Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Little by little, one travels far

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.
  Not all those who wander are lost.

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  Wind, Somewhere Else, Lost

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• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

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  Grief, Heart, Forget

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.851, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

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  Simple, Simple Life, Celebrate

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• If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

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  God, Believe, Purpose

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