139 Quotes by Jeff Wheeler

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

Vanity comes naturally to all of us. Every human is, to their own mind, the center of all known worlds – the axle on which it all turns. And yet their knowledge is but their own perception of the things around them, and their feelings are inescapably colored by their perceptions of the world’s wants and its merits.

If I did not get what I wanted, I suffered; if I got what I did not want, I suffered; even when I got exactly what I wanted, I still suffered because you cannot hold on to anything in the physical world forever.

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

A wise leader, a past King of Wayland actually, wrote this in his personal history at the end of his very successful reign. I found his advice in the Archives and think it some of the wisest advice ever written: ‘Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

To fully master your mind, you must learn not to react to being observed by others. We naturally seek to please. To be acceptable. And in so doing, we give others – even our loved ones – power over our minds.” He shook his bald head and gave her a fierce look. “Never let another person have control over your thinking. It is yours by right and by destiny.

That’s the thing about stories. They can touch on truths that some people just are not ready to hear.

But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. – Richard.