Quotes

It was discovered that there had been no prophecies. No mystical promises from the Almighty. That had all been an excuse, fabricated by the priests to placate and control the people.

I cannot live in the past. It is foolishness to do so.

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”

“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.

‘Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.’ ”

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

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Tone and volume. Find different levels for both.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”

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...

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him...

“Too many of us,” she said, “take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn’t you say?”

Never fight other men except when forced to in war.