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Quotes About Willed

The true Razumov had his being in the willed, in the determined future—in that future menaced by the lawlessness of autocracy—for autocracy knows no law—and the lawlessness of revolution.
~ Joseph Conrad
He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.
~ Neil Gaiman
The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being synonymous with the will of God.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Since attention is generally considered an internally generated state, it seems that neuroscience has tiptoed up to a conclusion that would be right at home in the canon of some of the Eastern philosophies: introspection, willed attention, subjective state—pick your favorite description of an internal mental state—can redraw the contours of the mind, and in so doing can rewire the circuits of the brain, for it is attention that makes neuroplasticity possible.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
grip my arm. I willed the old
~ Jojo Moyes
Depart then, impious one! Depart, accursed one! Depart with all your deceits, for God has willed that man should be his temple!
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
You can't specify what you're used for; you go where there's a need. The majority of willed bodies wind up in the anatomy department. Almost none end up in the English department.
~ Mary Roach
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Liberation is the consistent and perpetual willed act of identifying restrictive beliefs, deep-rooted superstitions and by gaining knowledge to overcome the obstacles identified.
~ Michael W. Ford
If we do not respond to human affection we cannot be loved by God in the way in which He has willed to love us—with the Heart of the Man, Jesus Who is God, the Son of God, and the anointed Christ.
~ Thomas Merton
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
~ Tacitus
This land looks dreamt, willed, potent.
~ Tim Winton
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
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
~ Thomas Hardy
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
~ Elizabeth Smart
Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.
~ Unknown
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
~ Margaret Atwood
Martin Luther. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God has willed His truth to triumph through us.
~ Unknown