Willingly Quotes (page 542)

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• perfect
• willful
• willed

You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden

• nature
• mindfulness
• humanity

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. Even in the gigantic and the ideal, the dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from our innermost souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations, much more than in ideas, which are... Victor Hugo

• sea
• ruined
• ruining

a collision at sea will ruin your entire day Thucydides

• blessed
• thanks
• personal

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson

• evening
• learning
• grace

He who learns must suffer; and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus

• irish
• world
• end

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• success
• end
• lasts

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes? toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. John Irving

• life
• green
• eyes

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne L. M. Montgomery

• flower
• god
• caring

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers. Victor Hugo

• reflection
• wellness
• reflect

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. William Shakespeare

• hope
• time
• feeling

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. Alan Watts

• fear
• will
• creation

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. Sydney Smith

• morning
• personality
• hair

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs Hunter S. Thompson

• life
• waiting
• willfulness

GWENDOLENIf you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

• sea
• may
• watch

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. Iris Murdoch