139 Quotes by Jeff Wheeler

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    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.

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    Strange how people yearn to become holy only after years of depravity.” She smiled knowingly. “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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    Sometimes the greatest blessings are those that are withheld from us.

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    He had always taught her, from earliest childhood, that she could choose her actions, not the consequences of those actions.

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    Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.

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    Life teaches us through contradictions. If you don’t get what you want, you whine; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you do indeed get what you want, you grieve because you cannot hold on to it. The mind wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and of death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

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    Speak the truth. Do not yield to anger. Give much when you are asked for little.

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    The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can’t do it, so they don’t even try.” “I.

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    I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Sometimes silence, at the proper season, is wisdom and better than any speech.

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