#wills

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#before #counseling #die #done #end

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#believe #civilization #civilizations #die #i

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#anxiety #birds #earth #everyday #everyday life

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

I'm swimming," Caspian announced. "Sort of. Do you think that will interfere with my mermaid search? If I fall into the ocean and I'm not drowning, do you think she'll bother to save me?" "I think your mermaid probably has a life," Wills said..."You can't count on her to be waiting around for you every day. So drowning on purpose makes you an idiot. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#kill-me-softly #mermaid #mermaids #sarah-cross #wills

The Finals are about a test of wills. ↗

— Bill Laimbeer

#finals #test #wills

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conjunction #constituted #dependence #incessantly #mind

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. ↗

— William Morris

#body #energies #exercising #exist #feels

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#god #here #march #merely #must

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences. ↗

— Buck Owens

#bob #did #hell #i #influences