Quotes

Burnout isn't the number of hours you work. It's too much effort on things that are against your core interests and values.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”

People were so easily fooled. All you had to do was give them a reason to believe something and they would almost always do so.

‘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 call...

Your feelings, Shallan—however powerful—are your own. Not mine. And what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.”

It’s idiocy to try to prove a negative. Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.”

It was better not to resist. This was his lot, and he was resigned to it. There was a certain power in that, a freedom. The freedom of not having to care.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

the more she studied, the more she hungered for knowledge.

Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?

When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole—a deficiency—we scramble to fill it.”

A very small part of an historical piece of fiction I stumbled upon: the hero goes through a prison. He crosses path with a very secondary character locked behind bars that say to him: "Hero, I envy you to go on adventures while I rot here...

A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means.