#will

A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say. (229) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#resignation #rivers #struggle #willfullness #change

The demand being made of me was to treat the breakdown as if fear and frustration were not a part of it, to act as if my life, the whole life, has not changed. ↗

— Arthur W. Frank

#change

After I heard that I had had a heart attack, how I lived in my body changed, and my doctor should have found a way to let me know he recognized that. ↗

— Arthur W. Frank

#change

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man. ↗

— Captain Price

#war #will #change

I shook my head. “I’m just afraid that if you go through those gates and get on that plane that I will never…” “Babe, don’t do this. It’s us. We are meant for each other. No matter what we’ll be together. No amount of distance will change that. Besides, you have an awesome internship opportunity at MBC news. You’re meant to be here,” Emma said. “So are you. You’re meant to be here with me,” I said, pulling our hands to my chest, directly over my heart. “Listen, you want to do something crazy with me, Emma? Let’s start our lives together today. Let’s skip all of this and start over. I don’t know what our lives will turn out to be but I know that my future needs you in it. I choose us,” I paused, gathering the strength to ask her a question I already knew the answer to. “What do you choose? ↗

— Alexandria Rhodes

#like-crazy #romance-love #spotlight-series #will #change

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#decision #dream #free-will #courage

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#believe #courage #determination #having #means

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#faith #spirit #victory #will #courage

Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#free-will #freedom-of-choice #courage

Raah mein kaante ho, to ho Sada manzilon ka armaan rakhna Pankho mein zor ho, na ho Magar hauslon mein uraan rakhna ↗

— Jyoti Arora

#determination #dreams #will #courage