What's a Quote From a FICTIONAL Character That CHANGED YOUR LIFE?

Am I the Genius?

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Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	What's a quote from a fictional character that changed your life?
0:05.2	We accept the love we think we deserve.
0:08.0	I think that if I ever have kids and they're upset,
0:10.2	I won't tell them that there are people starving in China or anything like that,
0:13.6	because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset.
0:16.0	And even if somebody else has it much worse,
0:18.0	that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
0:21.4	That's from the perks of being a wallflower. I don't know if I'm being cliche.
0:26.0	Nothing worth having is easy to come by. Dr. Robert Kelso.
0:30.7	A boy who idealizes war is perplexed why a war hero wants to retire to become a farmer.
0:36.0	He asks the wise warrior why he seems to despise
0:39.1	war, and this is the warrior's response. There is more honor in a field well plowed than one steeped
0:45.0	in blood. Many of the truths we cling to depend largely on your point of view, Ben Kenobi.
0:52.8	I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around
0:56.6	me, Joshua Graham and Fallout New Vegas. I think one that resonates with me is when Captain
1:02.5	Vimes says about his alcoholism, one's too many, two's not enough, and that's when I knew that
1:08.0	cutting down wouldn't work. I'd have to completely stop. I've been sober nearly five years now.
1:13.6	It's possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That's not weakness. That's life. Jean-Luc Picard.
1:21.4	Tomorrow's the day you'll pay the bills. Tomorrow's the day you'll grow up and start acting responsible.
1:26.4	But tomorrow never comes for you, because it's always so conveniently a day away.
1:30.4	I think this came from Susie and Hey Arnold.
1:32.6	I had to copy paste because I forgot the original quote verbatim,
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