Willfulness Quotes

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  • No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

  • To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

  • Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

    "Trading Stories" by Jhumpa Lahiri, www.newyorker.com. June 13&20, 2011.
  • Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

    Yield   Giving   Mastery  
    Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

  • If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

    Ignorance   Able   World  
  • If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

    Real   Feelings   Quality  
  • It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

    Writing   Mean   Reality  
    "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.
  • Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

    Passion   Mind   Taoism  
  • Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

    Real   Heart   Who I Am  
    Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons
  • If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  • Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.

    Mean   Garden   House  
  • When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

    Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com
  • I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

    Thinking   Kind   Quiet  
  • Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

    Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962
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