Willingly Quotes (page 677)

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• hand
• hair
• strong

The silence of the storm weighs heavily On their strained spirits: sometimes one will say Some trivial thing as though to ward away Mysterious powers, that imminently lie In wait, with the strong exorcising grace Of everyday's futility. Desire Becomes upon a sudden a crystal fire, Defined and hard: If he could kiss her face, Could kiss her hair! As if by chance, her hand Brushes on his ... Ah, can she understand? Or is she pedestalled above the touch Of his desire? He wonders: dare he... Aldous Huxley

• good
• him
• drawing

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. John Newton

• god
• prayer
• thinking

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. Phillips Brooks

• god
• prayer
• good times

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours. Oswald Chambers

• sad
• forever
• willful

The sadness will last forever. Vincent Van Gogh

• observation
• about
• observers

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Edgar Allan Poe

• smile
• misunderstanding
• willing

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. Jane Austen

• imagination
• sharing
• people

I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart. Emily Giffin

• death
• may
• defenders

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. Oscar Wilde

• unique
• world
• you me

But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• teacher
• god
• learning

Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn. C. S. Lewis

• learning
• learn
• willfulness

I will learn by screwing up. Greg Bear

• crush
• confused
• soul

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me Gustave Flaubert

• different
• fashion
• african

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience. Chinua Achebe

• future
• acceptance
• responsibility

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want. Robert Anton Wilson