Top 120 Jeff Wheeler Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “That’s the thing about stories. They can touch on truths that some people just are not ready to hear.”

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102. “Work has a way of cleansing the mind.”

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103. “The worse a person is, the less he feels it.”

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104. “Remember – sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

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105. “He found sarcasm to be an adequate defense in such moments. “I could have him killed at any time, my lord,” he said knowingly, his eyes bright. “But it would grieve me to make Elysabeth suffer. So I patiently wait for the man to get the pox.”

— Jeff Wheeler

106. “When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will.”

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

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108. “As mastons, we must always remember why we are here on this earth during the second life. It is not to be endlessly entertained by minstrels and dancing or to be in constant pursuit of base desires. We are here to be tested, to be tried so that we can receive all the Gifts the Medium has in store for us. Some of these Gifts will be discovered in this life; others will come to us beyond the Apse Veil.”

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109. “Each one has hopes and dreams. Isn’t it tragic that the vast majority are satisfied living beneath their potential.”

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110. “We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to ourselves.”

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

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112. “A burden which is done well becomes light.”

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113. “A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest, dispositions discovered in the heart of any maston. These dispositions must all be repressed. In playacting, as in the ancient days of Idumea, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the jongleur than their own approbation. But upon the shabby stage of this life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss.”

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114. “He who created us without our help would not save us without our consent.”

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115. “I have been an observer of humanity. Most men are petty, base, and cruel. Most women are fickle, proud, and cunning. Nearly all are shortsighted and tend to view happiness as a crumb worth hoarding. There are a few, however, who stick to a goal and pursue it regardless of obstacles. They are fired with ambition to achieve something at all costs. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate and the profoundest love.”

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116. “It’s almost as if history were a waterwheel that keeps coming back to the same point in the river.”

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117. “There was still that solitary little boy inside him, though, and he would always prefer the company of a few to the company of many. It.”

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118. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. A single word, spoken in enmity, can scar a heart for a lifetime. – Richard Syon, Aldermaston of Muirwood Abbey.”

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119. “Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things, which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Many tyrants have sat on a throne, and those whom no man would think on, have worn crowns.”

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120. “Sometimes the greatest blessings are those that are withheld from us.”

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121. “Maia, there is healing in weeping. There is balm in tears. An Aldermaston once said: Tears at times have the weight of speech.”

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122. “Happy is the one who has broken the chains that hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.”

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

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124. “Owen had never felt so tempted in his life. He saw the road in front of him. But it would mean betraying Severn. It would mean betraying the man who had guided him and given him his current rank. The man who had sent him to Atabyrion to help Evie win the heart of another man. Owen’s heart ached with pain. This is why men rebelled. This is how they fell.”

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125. “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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126. “Some we know about ourselves, and they are obvious to others too. Then we have faults that we are blind to ourselves, but are plain to everyone else. Some weaknesses we deliberately conceal from others. But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others.”

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127. “All you must do is believe in those small insights – those little bursts of wisdom that bloom in your mind when your heart is calm, controlled, and peaceful.”

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128. “There were so many powerful, headstrong men in this kingdom, but all of them were blind. A woman ruled them, and they did not even know it. Men needed to be ruled.”

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129. “If we emulate the principles by which is thrives, it flourishes in us.”

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130. “To her mind, it was nothing more than luck that had made her a princess. She considered everyone her equal unless they proved themselves not to be.”

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131. “There was never an angry man who thought his anger was unjust.”

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132. “Mastons learn that a peaceful conscience invites relief from anguish, sorrow, guilt, and shame. It provides a foundation for joy. It is of immeasurable worth. It is also incredibly rare. – Richard Syon, Aldermaston of Muirwood.”

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133. “Maybe I should have written a confession of feeling on a note, bound it to an arrow, and shot him in the heart from the palace walls. He may not understand anything more subtle.”

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134. “A person is but the product of their thoughts. What I think, I become. The challenge is in the taming of the maelstrom. How easily we fall prey to the thoughts of others. They can spread like a poisoned touch. Too often we unwittingly let the people around us tamper with our minds.”

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135. “Before someone leads, they must first learn to follow.”

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136. “Sooner or later, little sister, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

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137. “Where there is no history, there is no past. – Dawanjir proverb.”

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138. “No one truly belongs anywhere, Cettie. We each are given a life to live. And we live it as best we can.”

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