Willing Quotes - Page 31

• Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

  Maria Popova

  Self, Creating, Anxiety

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• You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

  Robin Hobb

  Heart, Comfort, Demand

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1574, Del Rey

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• If you are willing to walk the path of a dreamer, then anything is possibly.

  Jared Leto

  Dreamer, Path, Walks

  FaceBook post by Jared Leto from Aug 15, 2013

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• What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing.

  Kirsten Miller

  Lying, Sleep, Fighting

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• Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

  Kristin Cashore

  Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes.

  Kirsten Miller

  Heart, Mean, Listening

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.258, Penguin

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• You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

  Christina Baker Kline

  People, Giving

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• When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

  Paul Begala

  Integrity, Mean, White

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• I want to be with you, too,” he said. “I’ll come to your room after dawn.” Qhuinn didn’t want to ask. Had to. “What about Saxton?” “He’s gone on vacation.” Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally. “For how long?” “Just a couple of days.” Too bad. Any chance of an extension…for like a year or two? Maybe forever? “Okay, it’s a—” Qhuinn stopped himself before he finished that with date. There was no sense kidding himself. Saxton was away. Blay wanted to get laid. And Qhuinn was more than willing to supply the male with what he wanted.

  J.R. Ward

  Couple, Vacation, Years

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Crazy, Knowing Everything, Smell

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• Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

  Ann Landers

  Friendship, Addiction, Risk

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• One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

  Maya Banks

  Song, Two, Space

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• I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

  Rick Yancey

  Found You, Way, Dies

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• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

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• The Strength of a hero is not in her abilities. In her weapons. These things are important, but they are not the source of her strength. The source of her strength is in her belief in an idea – the idea that those who are strong, and those who are able, protect those who are not, and those who cannot protect themselves. The idea that the good, and the right, will triumph. She is willing to put herself in harm’s way – in mortal danger – to prove her belief in this idea.” “That it is the duty of those who have within themselves the power, and the gift, to help others.

  Scott Speer

  Strong, Hero, Helping Others

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• If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fit, Dies, Ifs

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• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, People, Kind

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Silence, Risk

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, June, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

  Ann Patchett

  Block, Moving, Ideas

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• We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

  Annabel Pitcher

  Adventure, Clouds, Sky

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• As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her.

  Richelle Mead

  Block, Fighting, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.196, Penguin

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• It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Your Side, Sides, Impossible

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• As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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