As we are, so we see.
Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter
Find peace in where and what you are.
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Never tell a child that something it's too hard
Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else, but to free YOURSELF from the continuation of pain and anger. It is a gift to your peace of mind, your self esteem, your relationships with others, your future.
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it. ' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.