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(Emotion check: Apparently there is an easier way to do things, but I wouldn’t know. I like to do it the hard way, and take as much physical and emotional damage as possible.)
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
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“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.”
― The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
― The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
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“Hope comes from the most unlikely places. The sun shines brightest in the morning, however dark the night was. At spring the first flower is brightest and the fruits are freshest. The songs of birds after winter are like water to the thirsty... And the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
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