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• My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

  Shakti Gawain

  Appreciation, Love Yourself, Commitment

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.205, Mango Media Inc.

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• Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

  Wentworth Miller

  Confidence, Thinking, Roots

  "Beanpole give Miller a Break". TheScene.com.au, August 27, 2009.

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• When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Faith, Giving, Doing You

  Iyanla Vanzant (2000). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind”, Simon and Schuster

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• Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It’s what makes the two of them so dangerous. (Jericho) No. It’s our willingness to believe their lies and to see what we want to see that makes it so dangerous. Even when we know better, we lie to ourselves and that’s where the true betrayal is. (Jared)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Betrayal, Mistake, Lying

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• Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.

  Matthew Kelly

  Love, Pain, Age

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.115, BookBaby

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• A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

  Poul Anderson

  Peace, War, Causes

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• Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

  Noah Levine

  Heart, Acceptance, Contentment

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• Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Dream, Doors

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• Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Skills, New Experiences

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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• Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.

  Floyd McClung

  Hurt, Father, Heart

  Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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• There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

  James Monroe

  Responsibility, Men, Price Tag

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Healthy, World, Break

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• In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Availability, Demand, Firsts

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.229, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

  Gordon Livingston

  Intuition, Important, Maps

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• Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft

  Molly Peacock

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!

  Faith Ringgold

  Letting Go, Running, Fear

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• If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

  Jorie Graham

  Taken, Voice, Poetry

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• Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

  Bobby Bowden

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Nfl

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• Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Knowing, Dying

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.

  Mary Oliver

  Moving, Fall, Voice

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

  Jacques Barzun

  Faces, Surprise, Stranger

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight". The Kenyon Review, 1943.

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• The kind of gratitude that receives even tribulations with thanksgiving requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, humility to accept that which we cannot change, willingness to turn everything over to the Lord -even when we do not understand, thankfulness for hidden opportunities yet to be revealed. Then comes a sense of peace. “When was the last time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Gratitude, Adversity, Humility

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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