Christopher Paolini Quotes

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.