Quotes
Quotes about Will
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happyâI mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough for sleep.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.
He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Unknown.
If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]
