Top 60 F.C. Yee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience.”

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2. “You can have your past, or you can have your future. Not both.”

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3. “Let a problem least for too long and people begin to believe it’s not a problem.”

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4. “You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.”

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5. “The Avatar can be reborn. But you can’t, Kyoshi. I don’t want to give you up to the next generation. I couldn’t bear to lose you.”

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6. “The Monkey King managed to outsmart or defeat most of these adversaries, but what came afterward was rather galling. If the demon at hand wasn’t killed and sent back to Hell immediately, it was often revealed to be an animal spirit from Heaven who had gained magic powers and used them to terrorize people on Earth. After Sun Wukong’s victory, a Chinese god would show up and be like, “Sorry, bruh, that ogre was actually my goldfish. I’ll take him back now.”

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7. “Enemies are enemies, but no one can shame you like your own family.”

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8. “Water was calmness and tranquility, but it was the rage of a storm as well.”

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9. “She didn’t have the right to lose herself in her rage and let it take her to oblivion. No matter what she’d been through. She wouldn’t allow herself to become a human scar, a compendium of personal loss. She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”

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10. “You either accept the risk of winning, or the guarantee of losing.”

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11. “People shouldn’t have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”

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12. “It wasn’t the reaction Rangi was looking for, but Kyoshi swelled with a sudden happiness. She couldn’t help it. Rangi acting so completely, utterly normal tugged on a rope connected directly to her heart. It always would.”

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13. “Rebuilding always took longer than destruction, cleaning a mess more time than making it.”

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14. “Where you go, I go. Besides, there’s only one bison, rocks-for-brains.”

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15. “It was said that each Avatar was born in fitting times, to an era that needed them. Judging by its start, the era of Kyoshi would be marred by uncertainty, fear, and death, the only gifts she seemed capable of producing for the world. The people would never revere her like they did Yangchen or smile at her like they did Kuruk. Then let it be so, she thought. She would fight her ill fortune, her bad stars, and protect those who might despise her to the very end of her days.”

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16. “They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they’re not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience.”

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17. “Weakness is practiced and learned as much as strength is!”

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18. “This is what you must forgo, Kyoshi, the easy answers. You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.”

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19. “My friend is not a diplomat. She is the failure of diplomacy. She is the breakdown of negotiations. There is no escalation of hostilities beyond her.”

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20. “No fire is ever the same fire. No Avatar is ever the same person. You and the flame change with every moment, every generation. You are one flame, and you are many.”

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21. “No one had warned her how empty it would feel to have a singular goal and see it achieved.”

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22. “It’s amazing what the mind can be led to believe,” Lao Ge said.”

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23. “The true problem with the world lies deep inside humanity itself, and despite your best efforts it will never be fixed. Mankind is a poor investment. A barren field. The less you do for it, the better.”

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24. “Some people in my country like to believe Avatar Yangchen watches over them. But you, Fire Lord. I can assure you that Avatar Kyoshi watches over you.”

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25. “They’re all the same, Kyoshi thought. Every single one. Whether they clothe themselves in business or brotherhood or a higher calling only they can see, it doesn’t matter. They’re one and the same. They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they’re not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience. They’re humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact.”

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26. “You will never be perfectly fair, and you will never be truly correct,” Lao Ge said. “This is your burden.”

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27. “Healing was better than destruction.”

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28. “All this fretting about the spirits. I’m trying to teach you about the mind. An infinite world that’s been neglected by far too many explorers.”

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29. “Spiritual power isn’t just or merciful. It’s fair. That’s what makes it so dangerous.”

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30. “With their eyes on each other, it was easy to be brave. Maybe that’s the only way we get through this, Kyoshi thought. Just never look away.”

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31. “Lek swung his legs off the chair, unable to stay in the same position lest the memory catch up to him. “The funny thing is, Date Grove doesn’t exist anymore. It was running out of water, on its last legs while I was there. It’s been swallowed by the desert. The people of the town killed my brother to uphold the law, and it meant nothing in the end. If the law was there to protect the village, and the village didn’t survive, then what did they gain?”

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32. “There is a direct chain of events between excessive desires in the present and widespread pain in the future.”

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33. “The instant the facts disagreed with their preconceived notions, people lost their minds.”

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34. “If one path of a fork promised you oblivion, it didn’t really matter what the other path held in store.”

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35. “She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”

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36. “White symbolizes treachery, a sinister nature, suspicion of others, and the willingness to visit evil deeds upon them. But red symbolizes honor. Loyalty. Heroism. This is the face that we show our sworn brothers and sisters. The red is the trust that we have for each other, buried in the field of white but always showing through in our gaze.”

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37. “Nope! Gonna cut you off right there. The last time I listened to a Firebender talk about ‘honor’ my ears nearly rotted off my skull. Had to kick him out of my bed with both feet.”

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38. “Human beings could drape themselves in titles and etiquette, but at their hearts they were all the same animal.”

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39. “As much as Kyoshi wanted to stay with her, in a single, frozen pool of moments, the current carrying them forward was too strong.”

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40. “What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are.”

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41. “What we do without guidance defines who we are!”

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42. “What he really needed was a weapon. A big, threatening, FU kind of weapon that would show everyone the Monkey King meant business.”

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43. “One of the first lessons a player learns is never to interrupt your opponent when she’s in the middle of making a fatal mistake.”

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44. “It took so long for the threads of mistakes and monstrous deeds to stop weaving into the future, to just tie themselves off and end. Maybe they never ended.”

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45. “People can always say I don’t look impressive enough, but they can’t argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.”

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46. “I was about as spiritual as a Chicken McNugget.”

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47. “Better than open war was not a standard to live by. And yet people seemed content with it.”

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48. “Fortune was an invisible, unconquerable creature that ruled commonfolk and noble alike.”

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49. “Only home could make you feel this bad.”

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50. “People like you have the luxury of failing more than once. The world will pick you up, dust you off, and send you on your way, nothing lost and nothing gained. You get to keep going, and going, until you get the result you want. And if you do decide to give up, there’s a nice cushion for you to land on. That’s why you have mottoes like ‘fail fast,’ and ’failure is the best teacher.”

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