The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.
So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they are impossible.
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin’ In The Sun,
Talkin’ ‘Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done…
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it?
It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for them.
I’m unpredictable, I never know where I’m going until I get there, I’m so random, I’m always growing, learning, changing, I’m never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
Bottom line is, even if you see ’em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t “try” to do things. You simply “must” do things.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.