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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. — William Shakespeare
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give.… — Neal A. Maxwell
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is… — Soren Kierkegaard
We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the… — D. H. Lawrence
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen — William S. Burroughs
And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. — J.R.R. Tolkien
[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half… — Swami Satchidananda
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. — Amy Carmichael
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in… — J I Packer
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we… — William Shakespeare
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s. — Elisabeth Elliot
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a… — Rumi
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every… — Soren Kierkegaard
Our wills and fates do so contrary run. — William Shakespeare
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. — Louisa May Alcott
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I… — Albert Einstein

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