Brandon Sanderson - Life Quotes

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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

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I was ten, I said. Give me a little credit. To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance. Abraham sounded amused. You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

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You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived... It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

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If I should die, Dalinar said, then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there. The Codes? No. The Way of Kings. That storming book.

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You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.

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Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

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Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

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Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

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Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes—unfortunately—it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

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They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time... I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

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I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

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The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

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The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?

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