Robin Hobb Quotes

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.

No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.