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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?”

“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.”

Knows Needs Hard Common Business Successful College Hard Work Degrees Common Sense Willingness College Degree

Author:Farrah Gray

“The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?”

World Littles Seems Eye Turns Lord Constant Shining Willingness Extravagant Transfiguration

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”

Giving Oneself Maturity Willingness Passion And Purity

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.”

Sometimes Universe Challenges Experiments Willingness Openness Dogma Conventional Conventional Wisdom

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”

Thinking Way Persons Real Happens Found Differences Interesting Alive Willing Listening Enormous Radical Pairs Willingness Pretending Way Of Thinking Fluid Monologues Dueling

Author:Alan Alda

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”

World Way Love Ideas Care Able Beautiful Lying Existence Objects Fairs Saving Willingness Reconcile Loving Love

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

Trying Doe Moral Genius Clarity Willingness Diligence Ingenuity

Book:Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.”

People Thinking Men Believe Ideas Night Evil Easy Accepting Cost Awake Willingness Telepathy

Book:'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?”

Knows Want Looks Dream Hands Seems Asks My Own Known Fantasy Strange Kissing Research Organization Careful Willingness Fabric Know Me Amazed Understand Me Fantasy Love

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Thinking Men Should Whole Happens Belief Grows Existence Accepting Knowledge Learning Awareness Adventure Discovery Absolutes Management Constant Code Willingness Formulas Stakes

Author:Martin Buber

“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

Heart Moving Consciousness Circumstances Right Now Judgement Willingness Compassionate Supportive Open Heart

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything”

Heart Lying Loses Willingness

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.”

Source: The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

Inspirational Feels Motivational Science Answers Progress Atheism Judging Embrace Depth Atheist Feel Good Willingness

Author:Carl Sagan

“I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.”

Ifs Trying Lying Dies Fighting Down And Bars Willingness Felicity No Sympathy

Author:Libba Bray

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.”

“The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.”

World Honesty Intellectual Evidence Argument Core Certainty Mathematical Willingness Modeling Intellectual Honesty

Author:Sam Harris

“That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.”

Heart Helping Problem Willingness Jam Helping Each Other Willingness To Help

Author:Elise Broach

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”

Writing Work Common Talent Endure Willingness

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.”

Life Is Jesus Attitude Sacred Conviction Charm Willingness Satisfying Creeds Dependence

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.”

Heart Waiting Bears Oneself Uncertainty Willingness Lifting Unanswered Questions Unanswered Waiting On God Passion And Purity

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.”

Believe Action Lord Principles Our Lives Willingness Savior Assurance Tribulation Overseeing

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

Long Peace Happenings Willingness Contemplating Simple Living Inevitability Ubuntu

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.”

Ifs World May Dies Fall Universe Belief Goal Behinds Plans Failing Chaos Guides Settling Flames Willingness Rise And Fall True Power True Things

Book:Here, There Be Dragons

Source: Here, There Be Dragons

“Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23)”

Persons Pain Suffering Can Do Love Is Knowing Willingness Helpless Anguish

Book:IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”

Ifs Needs Self Whole Fall Change Blame Intention Commit Willingness Hearted

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

“I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.”

“Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It’s what makes the two of them so dangerous. (Jericho) No. It’s our willingness to believe their lies and to see what we want to see that makes it so dangerous. Even when we know better, we lie to ourselves and that’s where the true betrayal is. (Jared)”

Knows Want Believe Made Two Lying Evil Mistake Dangerous Betrayal Willingness Believe In Me Seductive Same Mistakes Jericho

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.”

“To our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.”

“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”

Difficult Memories Heal Tension Willingness Touching

Author:Stephen Levine

“And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?”

Knows Way Long Hate Lost Force Ability Gratitude Monsters Realization Torture Willingness Cooperation Long Ago Valentine Numbness

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.”

Humans Belief Human Beings Atheism Conversation Behavior Projects Atheist Guarantees Willingness Collaboration Guarantees That

Author:Sam Harris

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.”

People Running Courses Causes Audience Risk Argument Tests Rounds Boring Just One Willingness More Time Indifferent Hostile Allegiance

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.”

People Giving Important Self Facts Shows Willing Giving Up Tests Foolish Immigration Willingness Traits Desirable Testing Select Colonization

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.”

Persons Might Form Life Is Dies Enemy Failing Inspire Commitment Army Girlfriend Willingness Afghanistan Screws Dump Your Girlfriend Forms Of Love Screw You

Author:Sebastian Junger

“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”

Self Dies Christianity Conditions Birth Perfection Surrender Willingness Frustrated Egocentric Self Perfection

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.”

People Thinking Want Art Seems Jobs Young Certain Term Perfect Brain Imagine Youth Smart Willingness Occupation Imagine That Precise Deliberation

Book:By Nightfall: A Novel

Source: By Nightfall: A Novel

“God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet.”

Ifs Want Purpose Certain Havens Commitment Stronger Burden Heavy Shoulders Fixed Willingness Load Heavy Loads

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”

Battle Willingness Recklessness Price Of Freedom

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“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.”

Needs Two Self Desire Turns Known Possibility Anxiety Oneself Deeper Willingness Orientation

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.”

Want Heart Greater Willingness

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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.”

Wells Kind Different Sometimes Fighting Compassion Quiet Ran Endurance Willingness Knives Different Kinds

Book:Enclave

Source: Enclave

“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.”

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