Quotes

Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

“My intention is not to convert, Your Majesty,” Jasnah said. “I am content keeping my beliefs to myself, something most of my colleagues in the devotaries have difficulty doing.

In every situation, you can find a better story to tell yourself about the person who cut you off in traffic, about the cashier in the checkout line you’re stuck in, about the email you still haven’t gotten a reply to, about the player who...

A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”

Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.

Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

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.”

When so much is being thrown at you, when there is so much you could be thinking about or doing, the strength to tune it out and do the one thing that must be done is essential.

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

Truth is a gateway drug to science.

Excess in anything becomes a fault.

You see, it has been my experience that no matter where you go, you will find some who abuse their power.”

There’s no reason to rush through bedtime. There’s no reason to rush through anything or to anywhere. Because what we’re rushing from is our children and the limited time we get with them — the amount of which is never guaranteed.

Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.

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