Robert Jordan Quotes

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

A man without trust is a man without life.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.