Nuggets of Wisdom
by Salzard · 32 things on Twos
- Featuring my favorite video games! (And maybe some books or other sources)
- A little over a year later, I am redefining this list as a collection of quotes that simply resonate with me. Words that mean something to me or just make me happy. A digital commonplace book if you will
- “Places… Objects… People… have many different lives. Life is a long and precious story, so you have to write your own. Explore your life as if it were a beautiful valley on a hot summers day. Take a deep breath before every challenge and after every success, and more importantly tell everyone about life. About the highs. About the lows. Share it without holding back.”
- Dordogne
- “She didn’t have to do it by herself. She didn’t have to be the one great and mighty and wonderful flamesilk who set the world on fire and saved everyone and fixed everything all alone. And she also didn’t have to be the sad, lost dragon who sat and waited to be rescued.
She only had to be herself, Luna, talon in talon with Blue and Cricket and Swordtail and Sundew and all the dragons of the Distant Kingdoms, and hopefully the humans too. If each of them tried, even a little bit, to make the world even a little better…
Then maybe there was hope.
And maybe things could change.”
- Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire book 15)
- “‘Don’t make your life about the loss. Make it about the love’”
- Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
- “Our choices are what make us good or evil—what we do, how we help or hurt the word”
- Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker
- “Destiny is not a single path, but many. Some are as straight as an arrow, others twist and tangle like a thread. Our duty is not to question them but to follow them.”
- Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey
- “Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. No matter what life gives you, give more back”
- Derek Sweger (William Sweger Family) THON 2024
- “If you want to do something, if you want to become something… People will say it’s not possible. They’ll shake their heads, no. They’ll tell you the countless reasons that you cannot and will not make it… but let me tell you, none of that matters. The countless reasons they say you can’t become something. The countless reasons they say you can’t do something… those countless reasons, you don’t need to overcome them. Instead, focus on one thing… If you want to become something, find YOUR reason to do it. That’s what makes someone a hero.”
- KyuJeanne, Enrolling in the Transcendent Academy
- “‘It does not seem that I can trust anyone’…’It all depends on what you want, you can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin—to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours—closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends’”
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- "There are stories recorded in innumerable forms of media—encoded in electrical charges, scratched onto bamboo slats and palm leaves, painted on paper and silk and more. There are stories pulsing in the boxes in my stall. Secrets beating in hidden hearts.
I whisper these stories to myself. Secrets to the night air, in a voice no mortal can hear. And sometimes I open a box and lean my face in. I remind these pulsing fragments of where they came from. Of who they were and are, and of what they could yet be."
- Vanessa Fog- The Red Queens Heart
- "She hadn’t realized, at first, how many pieces she’d given away. How many pieces there were to retrieve.
Here she is, still frightened after so many visits. It’s hard each time to learn that there’s still something missing. A hole, an absence, where you thought things were solid; a protective wall vanishing to reveal empty air."
- Vanessa Fog- The Red Queen’s Heart
- "Know this: there is one piece that the Queen never got back. Will never get back. She cannot, for I do not have it in my keeping.
It is the first piece every human gives up, before they even have words. The first piece that you exchange for cold armor. You do this, for otherwise existence itself would crush you. You gave up this piece of your heart to survive."
- Vanessa Fog- The Red Queens Heart
- "“‘I think we can hate and love each other at the same time—like how I can be angry and relieved and hopeful all at once. And hate’s temporary. When that’s all over, all that’s left is love’”"
- RoAnna Sylver- The Third Star
- "Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go."
- Rebecca Solnit- A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- "The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration—how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?"
- Rebecca Solnit- A field Guide to Getting Lost
- “To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery”
- Rebecca Solnit- A Field Guide to Getting Lost