Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

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.

It is not a lesson I claim to be able to teach. Experience herself is the great teacher, and you must seek her directly.

Some days, it seemed you couldn’t break Kaladin Stormblessed with all the stones on Roshar. Then one of his men would get wounded, and you’d see him crack.

“How did you ever mother that one?” Dalinar asked. “Mostly without letting her realize she was being mothered,” Navani said.

“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.”

Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.