Review by alioth
Jan 26, 2024with themes in forgiveness, truth, and acceptance
This book was great for everyone involved.
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“The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”
“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”
“I mean, is there really someone out there who looks at relationships and thinks, ‘You know what, I’ve got this’? Personally, I rather think we’re all collectively idiots about it.”
“Every moment in our lives seems trivial,” Zahel said. “Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots. Like white on black.”
“Experience herself is the great teacher, and you must seek her directly”
“sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.”
“But you should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life.”
“You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them”
“you have a chance … nobody has had for ages, a chance in millions. Either you seize it, and in so doing decide you’re worthy, or you leave and give up. … But if you leave, you don’t get to complain. As long as you keep trying, there’s a chance. When you give up? That’s when the dream dies.”
“In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”
“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes”
“The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone”
“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.”
“The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
“If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man”
“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
“Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.”
“It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end.”
with themes in forgiveness, truth, and acceptance
This book was great for everyone involved.
——
“The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”
“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”
“I mean, is there really someone out there who looks at relationships and thinks, ‘You know what, I’ve got this’? Personally, I rather think we’re all collectively idiots about it.”
“Every moment in our lives seems trivial,” Zahel said. “Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots. Like white on black.”
“Experience herself is the great teacher, and you must seek her directly”
“sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.”
“But you should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life.”
“You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them”
“you have a chance … nobody has had for ages, a chance in millions. Either you seize it, and in so doing decide you’re worthy, or you leave and give up. … But if you leave, you don’t get to complain. As long as you keep trying, there’s a chance. When you give up? That’s when the dream dies.”
“In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”
“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes”
“The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone”
“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.”
“The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
“If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man”
“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”
“Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.”
“It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end.”
