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June 13 - July 26, 2025
If there was a group more demanding than sergeants, it was mothers.
when everything feels wrong, all I can do is hope.”
nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.
“A virtue is something that is valuable even if it gives you nothing. A virtue persists without payment or compensation. Positive thinking is great. Vital. Useful. But it has to remain so even if it gets you nothing. Belief, truth, honor … if these exist only to get you something, you’ve missed the storming point.”
You can be a good person and say no,
just because something is fleeting, do not imagine it to be unimportant.”
just because something is eternal, do not assume it to be … to be relevant…”
Wit would do what he thought was best for a person, not what they wanted.
May you have the courage someday to walk away. And the wisdom to recognize that day when it arrives.
“I wasn’t referring to the humans,” she said, making herself human size apparently just so she could roll her eyes at Kaladin. As Szeth walked beside them, she glanced at Kaladin to check whether he had seen the eye roll. As he hadn’t, she waited until he looked, then gave a very exaggerated one. It was so forced, however, that both of them ended up grinning.
Sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing.
Some questions didn’t actually have right answers.
In true battle, men don’t get a chance to learn from mistakes.
It was the eternal irony of the capable rhetorician: train to find holes in any philosophy, and that will inevitably extend to your own. An inquisitive mind did not stop asking questions just because it found answers.
“The truth is, there’s a balance. You are a product of what life, society, and people have done to you. You bear blame for what you did, but others bear a lot of it too. It’s never too late to accept that your past might not be an excuse, but it is a valid explanation.
“We’re on a journey,” she said. “Between who we were, and who we want to be. Both of us.”
“I’m saying we need to act on the information we have, not the information we think we don’t have.”
What did you do when you weren’t enough anymore? When you had been the best all your life, but suddenly you were obsolete?
So much better was possibility than reality.
“Ah, Dalinar,” the voice said. “Listen. Remember. The question 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.”
Fear the old man who welcomed failure when young. If he has survived this long, he learned.
The best way to win is to provide your opponent with no options but to lose. But beware the assumption that you have considered every possibility.
The answer to most questions was “Well, it depends…”
The best players win two of three games against skilled opponents. In other words, even the finest lose a significant amount. Do not set up unless you are prepared for loss.
Being strong didn’t mean that you didn’t need anyone.
