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What brutal advice should all younger generations know? (lemmy.world)
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sometimes, the most valuable lessons are the harshest ones. What’s a piece of brutal, no BS advice you think every younger generation needs to hear? It could be from your own experience, something you learned the hard way, or just a tough truth no one talks about enough. Let’s hear the cold, honest reality.

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[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

“The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.

The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.

But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.

To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Excerpt From Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm reading the Way of Kings right now for the first time. It's so good, I just got to the part with

spoilerthe betrayal at the tower

and I'm so hyped to see how it ends. I am listening to the audiobook and read that first sentence and just heard Michael Kramer in my head before I recognized it was even from the series! Brandon just writes a certain way