#willed

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed. ↗

— Hulagu Khan

#ear #family #give #god #heed

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture. ↗

— Alicia Markova

#furniture #me #some #table #willed

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#roles #strong #who #willed #women

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#daughter #determination #mixed-feelings #mother #strong-willed-child

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before. ↗

— William Ames

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#against #consciousness #earliest #entirety #every

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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