#willingness

I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it was a step on the way; because imagination itself can be a kind of willingness - a pretence that things are real, due to one's longing for them. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#faith #god #imagination #longing #religion

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#allow #any #care #choose #insistence

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. ↗

— George Wald

#beyond #die #effect #heaven #kill

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#back #budget #campaign #certainly #compromise

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#depressed #happy #help #help others #learn

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need. ↗

— Richard Gere

#bravery #emotional #i #need #show

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#certainly #country #cover #get #i

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. ↗

— Demi Moore

#failure #feel #gets #harder #lose

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#give #love #love is #pure #pure love