Eragon / Eldest / Brisingr / Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle #1-4)

by Christopher Paolini

but then what meaning is there in life? How would you fill your time? Tell me.” “I don’t know,” he confessed. “By pursuing that which you love the most. When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks of himself as a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.

Great

Like him, you seem compelled to find the deepest patch of quicksand and then dive into it.”

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

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt,

and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf,

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

If you don’t make a few enemies every now and then, you’re a coward—or worse.

Victory is victory and dead is dead, however it is achieved.

If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try.

You cannot expect wolves to become sheep. No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.

It is easy to be calm when there is nothing to worry about, Eragon. The true test of your self-control, however, is whether you can remain calm in a trying situation.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Never was his mind so keen as when his belly was empty.

What you have yet to learn, youngling, is that it does not matter how you achieve victory, only that you achieve it.”

“A man of conscience—the most dangerous kind in the world.”

Ono ach néiat threyja eom verrunsmal edtha,

May you be happy.