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• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  Ian Caldwell

  Wall, Saws, Standing

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

  Farrah Gray

  Business, Hard Work, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Jul 24, 2011

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• Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Pain, Mean

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.59, Random House

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• One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Funny, Self, Understanding

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• My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

  Shakti Gawain

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Loving Life

  Shakti Gawain (2008). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

  John Stott

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  John Stott (2013). “Balanced Christianity”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Educational, Integrity, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

  Paul Hawken

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Humanity

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.

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• Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Hate, Loving Yourself

  "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".

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• That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Hate, Islamic, Differences

  Barack Obama's Statement on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Two, Anxiety

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin

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• There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Compassion, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.244, Macmillan

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• Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

  Jared Diamond

  Reflection, Two, Long

  "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Effort, Meditation, Persevere

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 07, 2011

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• Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Practice, Important, Elements

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• The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Fate, People, Justice

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.16, The New Press

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• ...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Lying, Believe

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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• The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Understanding, Identity

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• One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

  Dick Cheney

  Work, Intelligent, Government

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2006.

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• Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and priesthood covenants provide a test of faith, obedience, and love for God and Jesus Christ, but even more importantly, they offer an opportunity to experience love from God and to receive a full measure of joy both in this life and in the life to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

  David Spangler

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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