Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

Find the balance. Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”

Someone has to fall, that others may stand.”

“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.”

‘The question,’ she replied, ‘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.’”

“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.