When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.