“That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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― Ship of Destiny
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― Ship of Destiny
“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Books have great value, actions have greater value.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It’s in how they make use of what life has shown them.”
― The Alloy of Law
― The Alloy of Law
“It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
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