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Willfulness Quotes (page 346)

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn. Madeleine L'Engle
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. Oscar Wilde
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic Anton Chekhov
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. Joss Whedon
I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think about today..."No, that's giving up... I'm still hpoing that yesterday will get better. Charles M. Schulz
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. Kurt Vonnegut
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good..."
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. L. M. Montgomery
Paulo Coelho quote: "Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be..."
Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it Paulo Coelho
Oh God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!' Thanks to our labours, this will mean increasingly, 'Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite'. C. S. Lewis
If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. Stephen Jay Gould
Paulo Coelho quote: "Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to..."
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. Paulo Coelho
And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine A being breathing thoughtful breath A traveler betwixt life and death The reason firm the temperate will Endurance Foresight Strength and skill William Wordsworth
For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story. Philip Pullman
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come Mitch Albom

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