#wil

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#will-to-live #life

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#apple #apples #cart #rot #upset

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#few #keep #most #pitches #pitching

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more. ↗

— William Barclay

#any #best #definition #heaven #him

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fashion #oscar-wilde #life

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#consist #feedback #guitar #just #may

Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant. He is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas come to him involuntarily; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them; he is unceasingly modified by causes, whether visible or concealed, over which he has no control, which necessarily regulate his mode of existence, give the hue to his way of thinking, and determine his manner of acting. He is good or bad, happy or miserable, wise or foolish, reasonable or irrational, without his will being for any thing in these various states. ↗

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

#free-will #life

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#awfully #big #big adventure #die #will

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#choice #fyodor-dostoyevsky #life #notes-from-the-underground #reason