J. R. R. Tolkien: "It's a dangerous business going out your front..."

About J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

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If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it’s easier, or they’re scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

—Lauren Dane in Giving Chase

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Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

—Virginia Woolf

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If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.

—Charles Lindbergh

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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

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