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.
If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you’ll never be able to dance.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
I may not always be with you
But when we’re far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.
Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.