CARTER CHAMBERS, THE BUCKET LIST

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

“The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.”

”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”

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

“No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else.”

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.”

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.”

“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.”

Frodo: “What are we holding onto, Sam?”
Sam: “That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.”

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

“Great men are not born great, they grow great.”

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.”