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Willingly Quotes (page 549)

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. Napoleon Bonaparte
Brian Tracy quote: "Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you..."
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do. Brian Tracy
Paulo Coelho quote: "Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that..."
Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything. Paulo Coelho
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. Neil Armstrong
Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred. John McGahern
But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help."That may be true," said Reason gravely, "but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. Norton Juster
Mother Teresa quote: "I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can..."
I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. Mother Teresa
When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking...Can we be alone? Amy Winehouse
Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be. Oswald Chambers
The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound. Whittaker Chambers
Toni Morrison quote: "If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long,..."
If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Toni Morrison
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In the search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You are abandoning your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up. Elizabeth Gilbert
I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life Jodi Picoult
In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top with the phone saying 'Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine.' The trunks shudder Jeanette Winterson

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