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“Keep Going

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Why do we tell stories? They are a universal human experience. Every culture I’ve ever visited, every people I’ve met, every human on every planet in every situation I’ve seen…they all tell stories. Men trapped alone for years tell them to themselves. Ancients leave them painted on the walls. Women whisper them to their babies. Stories explain us. You want to define what makes a human different from an animal? I can do it in one word or a hundred thousand. Sad stories. Exultant stories. Didactic morality tales. Frivolous yarns that, paradoxically, carry too much meaning. We need stories.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Trauma doesn’t decrease with company, but it does grow easier to work through when you know someone else understands.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Art - and all stories are art, even the ones about real people - is about what it does to you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“It’s said that everything you eat, even the air you breathe, becomes part of you. The axi that make up the matter you take in come to make up you instead. I, however, find that the moments we take into our souls as memories are far more important than what we eat. We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Art is about feelings and emotion. It's about letting them escape, so they can be shared. It's about capturing a truth about yourself. Like you're ripping a hole in your chest and exposing your soul.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“I only stare," he said. "when I see something too beautiful for my eyes to take in at once.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter