“Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.” WantPastSpaceAcceptingDoorsAcceptanceWillingKeysGratitudeWhat You WantOur PastYour PastCan't ChangeTrue PeaceUnlocking Author:Hal Elrod
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.” IfsHumansLongHas BeensSpaceExistenceRiskWillingLong TimeEssenceCuriosityExplorationHumankindHuman Existence Author:Gene Cernan
“In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.” PeopleWantMindSeemsSpaceEffortPayMillionsFiguresWillingMoonCustomersAppropriateExplorationMarsThings ChangeVisitingSpace TravelAsteroids Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.” WorldPersonsCommunitySpacePracticeStudyCuttingChangedWillingIntellectualTraditionWestIndividualistic Author:Bell Hooks
“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.” CareSpaceHalfBuildingWillingCostDrugBenefitsAvailableMedicalPsychologicalTreatmentJailUsersMaintainingMedical CareProsecutingDetaining Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.” PeopleWorldPersonsBigsGovernmentCareSpacePoorMillionsFireCuttingWillingPlanetsHugeArmsPoliticianTaxesIncreaseDollarsEverydayProfitAround The WorldCorporationsStationsStampsSalaryOuter SpaceJupiterFood StampsBig CorporationsDay CareLaid Off Book:Assata: An Autobiography Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of humanity's most enlightened people.... A shared reappraisal of Jesus' message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue - and it doesn't seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus' message may be the only project capable of saving a number of religions.” PeopleMaySeemsHumanityJesusReligiousSpaceCommonNumbersDivineWillingPlanetsDependsNeededProjectsMessagesCapableUniqueDialogueSavingBuddhistManifestationEnlightenedOur PlanetExaggerationCommon Ground Author:Brian D. McLaren
“This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!” FilmSpaceWillingStudiosAliensOccasionsLots Of MoneyHookOuter SpaceFilm SetSheriffsTaggart Author:Keith Carradine
“I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.” WorldStatesGovernmentFightingFeltSpaceUnitedUnited StatesWillingLettersMagazinesAround The WorldComparisonPrintEditorsArrogantPointingWorldviewBin LadenCowardlyCoalitionsDefendersOsama Bin LadenHordeGood FightHelmTime MagazineOrcsSaruman Author:Viggo Mortensen
“We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.” NeedsHeartSpaceCompassionWillingWitnessShadeLove And CompassionHumanness Author:Christine McCormick Day
“You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.” PeopleUseSpaceWillingDrawsClean Author:Bette Midler
“There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.” GivingWellsArtArtistOrderChanceSpaceRoomsWillingShotsMassiveLitGalleryDealer Author:Jerry Saltz