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Letter "S" » self-will
«Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.»
«It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
be born, calamity, exploits, self-will, self-willed, sensibly, ugliness, willed
«This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
clearing, Come and Go, come forth, creed, forest, forth, go back, In Me, must have, put back, recognize, self-will, self-willed, submit, submitting, the gods
«Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's notto be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Birthday
| Keywords:
birthday cake, cake, candles, emerge, flicker, flickering, flickers, gone by, self-will, self-willed
«The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for others:they act only from the self --and that self will never be right:no luck, no help, no wisdom.»
«There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
effectively, redemptive, self-will, self-willed, The Knowledge, The Sacrifice
«O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.»
«Every spoken word arouses our self-will.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
self-will, self-willed, spoken word
«This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor. It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the cal»
«We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, commenced, common interest, evening gown, gown, gowns, intercourse, pattern, self-will, self-willed, self interest, teacup, The Creatures, transaction, transactions, whim
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