--- title: "1 Feel Wind Quotes By George MacDonald" description: "1 Feel Wind quotes by George MacDonald. Plus more from George MacDonald and more Feel Wind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/george-macdonald-295_better-things_ah-but-dear-north-wind-you-don-t-know-ho_294722.jpg" --- > [“Ah, but, dear North Wind, you don't know how nice it is to feel your arms about me. It is a thousand times better to have them and the wind together, than to have only your hair and the back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/ah-but-dear-north-wind-you-don-t-know-how-nice-it-is-to-feel-your/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/george-macdonald-295_better-things_ah-but-dear-north-wind-you-don-t-know-ho_294722.jpg) ## More by George MacDonald > [“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to revelation; yea,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/no-revelation-can-be-other-than-partial-if-for-true-revelation-a-man/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/in-low-theologies-hell-is-invariably-the-deepest-truth-and-the-love/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/life-and-religion-are-one-or-neither-is-any-thing/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/the-region-belonging-to-the-pure-intellect-is-straitened-the/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/come-then-affliction-if-my-father-wills-and-be-my-frowning-friend-a/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/ah-what-is-it-we-send-up-thither-where-our-thoughts-are-either-a/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/you-must-learn-to-be-strong-in-the-dark-as-well-as-in-the-day-else/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/few-delights-can-equal-the-mere-presence-of-one-whom-we-trust-utterly/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/you-have-tasted-of-death-now-said-the-old-man-is-it-good-it-is-good/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [ “I wish I had \[made that song\]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/i-wish-i-had-made-that-song-no-i-don-t-that-would-be-to-take-it-from/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Past tears are present strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/past-tears-are-present-strength/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/age-is-not-all-decay-it-is-the-ripening-the-swelling-of-the-fresh/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/i-want-to-help-you-grow-as-beautiful-as-god-meant-you-to-be-when-he/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [“Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/immeasurably-imperfect-it-was-but-false-the-impression-could-not-be/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) > [Those that hope little cannot grow much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/those-that-hope-little-cannot-grow-much/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feel-wind/george-macdonald/#itemlist", "name": "1 Feel Wind Quotes By George MacDonald", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ah, but, dear North Wind, you don't know how nice it is to feel your arms about me. It is a thousand times better to have them and the wind together, than to have only your hair and the back of your neck and no wind at all.\" \"But it is surely more comfortable there?\" \"Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.\" \"Yes, indeed there are. Well, I will keep you in front of me. You will feel the wind, but not too much. I shall only want one arm to take care of you; the other will be quite enough to sink the ship.\" \"Oh, dear North Wind! how can you talk so?\" \"My dear boy, I never talk; I always mean what I say.\" \"Then you do mean to sink the ship with the other hand?\" \"Yes.\" \"It's not like you.\" \"How do you know that?\" \"Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can't be like you.\" \"Ah! but which is me? I can't be two mes, you know.\" \"No. Nobody can be two mes.\" \"Well, which me is me?\" \"Now I must think. There looks to be two.\" \"Yes. That's the very point.—You can't be knowing the thing you don't know, can you?\" \"No.\" \"Which me do you know?\" \"The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,\" answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. \"Why am I good to you?\" \"I don't know.\" \"Have you ever done anything for me?\" \"No.\" \"Then I must be good to you because I choose to be good to you.\" \"Yes.\" \"Why should I choose?\" \"Because—because—because you like.\" \"Why should I like to be good to you?\" \"I don't know, except it be because it's good to be good to me.\" \"That's just it; I am good to you because I like to be good.\" \"Then why shouldn't you be good to other people as well as to me?\" \"That's just what I don't know. Why shouldn't I?\" \"I don't know either. Then why shouldn't you?\" \"Because I am.\" \"There it is again,\" said Diamond. \"I don't see that you are. It looks quite the other thing.\" \"Well, but listen to me, Diamond. You know the one me, you say, and that is good.\" \"Yes.\" \"Do you know the other me as well?\" \"No. I can't. I shouldn't like to.\" \"There it is. You don't know the other me. You are sure of one of them?\" \"Yes.\" \"And you are sure there can't be two mes?\" \"Yes.\" \"Then the me you don't know must be the same as the me you do know,—else there would be two mes?\" \"Yes.\" \"Then the other me you don't know must be as kind as the me you do know?\" \"Yes.\" \"Besides, I tell you that it is so, only it doesn't look like it. That I confess freely. 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