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Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#sacrifice #victory #sacrifice

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#adrian #hathaway #ivashkov #last #rose

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#romance #dreams

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #dreams #flying #literature #literature-quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau ↗

— David Thoreau

#dreams

I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse ↗

— Joss Stirling

#make-believe #reality #soulmates #dreams

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#hope #inspirational #love #dreams

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #thought #truth #death

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #love

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge