“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.”
-Wayne Dyer
Category Archives: WILLINGNESS
If a big star is dogging the moon, wild weather may be expected.
A star, however willing, cannot help the moon.
“Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net.
Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Billy Joel
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn’t try.”
― Jen Knox
“Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. “I can’t” often means “I won’t.” You can change “I won’t” to “I will” with will power.”
– Marcia Wieder
The bull must be taken by the horns
In moments of danger during a bullfight, a strong, expert matador will grabs the bull by the horns and so prevent it from tossing him
http://english.al/letter/b/page/2/
The marathon is like a bullfight. There are two ways to kill a bull, for instance. There is the easy way, for one. But all the great matadors end up either dead or mauled because for them killing the bull is not nearly as important as how they kill the bull. They always approach the bull at the greatest risk to themselves, and I admire that. In the marathon, likewise, there are two ways to win. There’s the easy way if all you care about is winning. You hang back and risk nothing. Then kick and try to nip the leaders at the end. Or you can push, challenge the others, make it an exciting race, risking everything. Maybe you lose, but as for me, I’d rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, then run a conservative, easy race only for a win.
Alberto Salazar
http://www.sportsfeelgoodstories.com/sport-quotes/sports-quotes/running-quotes/
Abundance, like want, ruins many. Romanian
http://www.quotesandsayings.com/proverbial.htm
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Jacques Cousteau
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
foto – mountains behind north beach dec 2012
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting The Power Of The Wild Woman
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
― Saki, The Complete Saki
“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee
The 1930s, Kennedy said, ‘taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war
― John F. Kennedy
“Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.”
Donna Quesada, The Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
The hand that turneth the knob, opens the door
http://www.indianchild.com/Quotes/funny-proverbs.htm
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
If you agree to personate a dog, you must bark.
Anything once begun should be done thoroughly.
(The proverb implies that the work in question was begun with some unwillingness.)
"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"
A BOY AND A DOG
By Marty Hale
I want my boy to have a dog,
Or maybe two or three…
He’ll learn from them much easier
Than he would learn from me.
A dog will show him how to love
And bear no grudge or hate;
I’m not so good at that myself
But dogs will do it straight.
http://www.barkingbuddies.com/dogpoems.html
foto – izzy and scoob 2010
It is better to have friends in our passage through life than grateful dependants ; and as love is a more willing, so it is a more lasting tribute than extorted obligation. Goldsmith.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Rev. William John Henry Boetcker
Creole Proverb: The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go.
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/new_site/awbr_archive/147/Cobby.htm
I drive out to Amoonguna to tell the family he is right
I sit down with his Aunty, round the campfire, in the night
I ask her to explain the pelicans and the meaning of the sign
She laughs and whispers ‘Arrangkwe.
just 2 pelicans in the sky!’
Ali Cobby Eckermann. little bit long time. Australian Poetry Centre, Balclava, 2009.
An Incisive Indigenous Voice
foto – pelican at iluka december 2009
The wish is father to the thought.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock.
foto – nellibell49 09 ulmarra
"Put your hand in the fire, whether willingly or no, you will get burnt." (Bengalese)
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Roosevelt Eleanor
foto tree at minnie water 2009
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 