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Willingly Quotes (page 603)

Andy Rooney quote: "I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone..."
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. Andy Rooney
In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. The future is that which – tomorrow, later, next century – will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival.... Jacques Derrida
Samuel Beckett quote: "In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I..."
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? Samuel Beckett
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air. The air which is now thoroughly small and dry. Smaller and dryer than the will. Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still T. S. Eliot
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial. Frederick Buechner
Sigmund Freud quote: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you..."
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud
William Shakespeare quote: "I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new..."
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. William Shakespeare
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. Martin Luther
So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about. Douglas Adams
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.] Isaac Asimov
If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be... C. S. Lewis
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death. John Fowles
Rumi quote: "God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means..."
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one Rumi
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. Erich Fromm
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? Anne Lamott

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