💬 Quotes

"By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness."

"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."

"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; it is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful."

"I am done with this war. I have made a stop to it. I have quit it. I do not care if it goes on forever or if it ends tomorrow."

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

"It is a hard thing to leave life, but a harder thing to stay and watch it be consumed by others."

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

"Every person has a life that is a story, and the story is all we have left when the person is gone."

"I have spent my life moving toward you, and I have nothing to show for it but the dust of the road."

"I am a rider, but I am also a man, and the two are not always the same."

"True power is not the ability to force others to do your will, but the ability to master your own."

"It is not the weight of the sword that tires the arm, but the weight of the fear in one's heart."

"To be a leader is to be a servant to those you lead, for their lives are the price of your decisions."

"The past is a phantom, Eragon. It cannot hurt you unless you let it hold your hand."

"Names are the threads that bind the world together; to know a name is to hold the leash of existence."

"What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to alter the course of events?"

"I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really—one has to ask oneself—what dignity is there in that?"

"You look at this massive grey house, and you think, for a moment, that you can understand the life that was lived here. But then, it slips away."

"We are all of us tired of the past. We all feel it's time we stopped dwelling on our disappointments and looked to the future."