The Wretched of Muirwood
Jeff Wheeler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“There is wisdom in climbing mountains... For they teach us how truly small we are.”
“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.”
“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
“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.”
“Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia ~ The Wretched of Muirwood)”
“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.”
“Work has a way of cleansing the mind.”
“One does not grow strong unless one works at where one is weakest.”
“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.”
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ability, reading, dreams, perspective, perfection, wisdom, language, mountains, accomplishments
