Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd AlexanderMost of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.
Lloyd AlexanderLong ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
Lloyd AlexanderIndeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
Lloyd AlexanderTag: fatherhood
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.
Lloyd AlexanderTag: wisdom learning grief the-chronicles-of-prydain
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
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