Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
1Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
"The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path."
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
"I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man."
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
Words are where most change begins.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
"I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome."
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
One can believe in a story without believing it happened.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
"Ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once."
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.
Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
The book spoke of a king carrying the burdens of his people. It said that those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
1What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
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