Jeff Wheeler Quotes

Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time. Therefore, the greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey

In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please. It is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it, perhaps, even within the abbeys of the realm. For even if I, an Aldermaston, could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Thus, thus, truly thus: a mind so blind and sick, so base and ill-mannered, desires to lie hidden, but does not wish that anything should be hidden from it.

That is why I refuse to shutter the windows. We need more light. Even a flower withers without sunshine.

In every great city, with all its gleaming walls and massive libraries, with all the shimmering fountains and sculptured gardens, there is a superfluity of dung that must be carted out.

I have heard that in moments of extreme terror and suspense, our minds can deliver to our aid a remedy for the situation if we have the courage not to flinch from it. Too often we are doomed to fail simply because we believe too quickly that we will.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Most people suffer from a lack of imagination. They don't dare enough. But I do.

If the truth cannot bear the scrutiny of candlelight, what will it do if exposed to the sun?

Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.

New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn...or even a frown.

Lady Eleanor sat at the window seat of her chambers, gently stroking her son's head in her lap.

I was willing to wait to have someone like you. Someone who has passed every test, has remained constant and true.

He who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting.

Loyalty, when divided, is sharper than a blade and cuts both ways.

I cannot break the chains you forged against yourself.

The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told.

There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.

Fools convince themselves their enemies are their true friends.

The mind, like the body, can be moved from sunshine into shade. -

Never greet a devil till you meet one or cross a bridge before you've reached it. Ten times out of nine, thing aren't as bad as we fear them to be.

Dying is easy. Living has always been the challenge.

You will all die in this place. This is the place where death was born.

Be at peace with your own soul, then the heavens and the earth will be at peace with you. The Druidecht are truly wise.

As accomplished as Aboujaoude?" "He was accomplished and humble. You, my son, are ambitious. And proud. And your feet smell strongly of dung, if I am being perfectly honest.

It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed.

I have learned, mostly through painful experience, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable. More often than not, it is well meant, the truth, and something I have needed to hear but did not want to. It is an easy thing to be offended. It is difficult to learn something new about ourselves.

Only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, can make the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.

It will be no greater miracle that brings us into another world to live forever with our dearest friends than that which has brought us into this one to live a lifetime with them. Or almost a lifetime. Therefore, we weep when they depart. But we will see them again in another world.

What's the benefit of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? There is good in doing this. We must not flinch when we look at the past. We must strive to learn from our mistakes. So we must learn to bear and endure. The sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

I apologize again for another cliffhanger ending.

Loyalty binds me,

But remember the nature of secrets, Owen. If you share yours, it will stop wriggling inside your chest. And it will start wriggling inside hers. Secrets always want to come out.

In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight.

You will find that most prisons are forged in someone's own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could but think to use it.

While the Medium reveals itself in many forms and can come as a dramatic manifestation, it usually does not. Some mastons think they need to experience the full, raw power of the Medium before they are convinced of its possibilities. If we have unrealistic notions of how, when, or where the Medium reveals itself, we risk missing the tokens which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts while we are doing something else. These simple manifestations of the Medium can be equally convincing and powerful as the dramatic ones. Over time, we learn how this works. It is something each maston learns for himself.

They hate truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love in its place. When truth benefits them, they love it. When it rebukes them, they hate it. They love truth when it reveals itself and hate it when it reveals them.

If you only believe what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not truth you believe, but yourself. - Possidius Adeodat, Archivist of Kenatos

That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Where weeds are sown, weeds grow.

Character is not developed in moments of temptation and trial. That is when it is intended to be used.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.

If it looks a bit rough, a little worn, with little splotches - those have the swetest flavor. The ones that are perfect on the outside tend to be a bit more bland. That is true about many things in life.

Argentine was a hard king to serve. He had a barbed whip for a tongue and it drew blood whenever he spoke.

Our greatest pain in this life often comes from those who should love us the most.

We all face difficulties, but they should not become our core. We grieve, we suffer, we weep. Challenges are experiences that help us to grow, like the winds that help strengthen the roots of the apple trees in the Cider Orchard. Storms are always temporary and should never distract us from the beautiful days that were before or will come after. Do not become so fixed on a single injustice that you can no longer remember others may be suffering near you. Like the healing of the body when it is ill, the healing of the heart requires patience.