Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
BRANDON MULLMost pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374
More Brandon Mull Quotes
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Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan.” Is it Nate?” She calls me Honeylips.
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Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
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Fablehaven’s awesome!!so is the candy shop war!
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A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them.” (Beyonders – A World Without Heroes)
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You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
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If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.
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Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded. “Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.
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Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
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Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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Patience mimics the power of infinity.
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My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don’t deserve it.
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It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
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Faith isn’t knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.
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An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
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