Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

by Christopher Paolini

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.…

To know that you were with one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you in even the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have,

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.”

the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.”