Unwilled Quotes

#1. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Ayn Rand

#3. This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#4. The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

Leonard Cohen

#6. we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Mary Ellen Mark

#8. Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

Graham Parker

#9. Don't fight a battle that Jesus has already won the victory for!

Kathy McClary

#10. For new media reactionaries ... the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

David L. Ulin

#11. Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Carl Jung

#12. The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Alfred Bester

#13. Social values, friends, communities and families control our thoughts.

Balroop Singh

#14. I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Orson Scott Card

#15. My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#17. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Richelle E. Goodrich