#Willing Quotes
“I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.”
“I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.”
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.”
“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”
“The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.”
“If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.”
“No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.”
“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.”
Ayya Khema
Chogyam Trungpa Teacher
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure
Jack Kornfield Author
Jon Kabat-Zinn Professor
K. D. Lang Singer-songwriter
Nhat Hanh Monk
Tara Brach Psychologist
Thubten Chodron
