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  • #1
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #2
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #3
    Brandon Sanderson
    “And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #4
    Brandon Sanderson
    “To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #5
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #6
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #7
    Brandon Sanderson
    “In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #8
    Brandon Sanderson
    “To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #9
    Brandon Sanderson
    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.

    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

  • #10
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: pain

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    “Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”
    E.O. Wilson

  • #14
    Donna Tartt
    “Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature”
    Donna Tartt

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #17
    Henry Miller
    “Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
    Henry Miller

  • #18
    Sarah Kay
    “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
    Sarah Kay

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

  • #20
    Donna Tartt
    “Death is the mother of beauty”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #21
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #22
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

    And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

    And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #25
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    “The moon is a loyal companion.
    It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
    Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #28
    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    George Carlin

  • #29
    Sylvia Plath
    “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #30
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    Norman Vincent Peale



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