Willingness Quotes - Page 35

• To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Love, Change, Giving Up

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• Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

  Noah Levine

  Heart, Acceptance, Contentment

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• If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Risk, Failing, Ifs

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• Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Honesty, Yoga, Book

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.16, Rodale

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• A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

  Poul Anderson

  Peace, War, Causes

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• In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Childhood, Religion, Gardening

  Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Griffiths Belt (2002). “Last stand: America's virgin lands”, National Geographic

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• When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Faith, Giving, Doing You

  Iyanla Vanzant (2000). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind”, Simon and Schuster

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• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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• You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Healthy, World, Break

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• In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Availability, Demand, Firsts

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.229, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft

  Molly Peacock

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Common Humanity, Effort, Courageous

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• Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Blood, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.176, Dial Press

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• The kind of gratitude that receives even tribulations with thanksgiving requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, humility to accept that which we cannot change, willingness to turn everything over to the Lord -even when we do not understand, thankfulness for hidden opportunities yet to be revealed. Then comes a sense of peace. “When was the last time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Gratitude, Adversity, Humility

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• Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

  Jacques Barzun

  Faces, Surprise, Stranger

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight". The Kenyon Review, 1943.

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• Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Knowing, Dying

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.

  Mary Oliver

  Moving, Fall, Voice

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Males, Slave

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• Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

  Bobby Bowden

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Nfl

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• If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

  Jorie Graham

  Taken, Voice, Poetry

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• The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!

  Faith Ringgold

  Letting Go, Running, Fear

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• There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

  Gordon Livingston

  Intuition, Important, Maps

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• Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.

  Floyd McClung

  Hurt, Father, Heart

  Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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