Quotes About Will

The devil take order! I'll to the throng: Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

A world in which the choices we make do not finally matter, because our wills are already fixed beneath the weight of a crushing determinism, is not a human world.

What is decreed must be, and be this so.

He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another.

This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

When Mr Bird had written his will and had read it over he became aware that he was laughing. He heard the sound for some time, a minute or a minute and a quarter, and then he recognized its source and wondered why he was laughing like that, such a quiet, slurping sound, like the lapping of water.

It was the unexpected tribute that broke Ross up. He had hardened himself to all the rest. Not being a religious man, he had no resources to meet the loss of the child except his own resentful will. Inwardly he railed against heaven and circumstance, but the very cruelty of the blow touched his character at its toughest and most obstinate.

Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat—88

In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.

Para acabar con la tradición judaica Leyendas hasídicas según la interpretación de un distinguido erudito El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

Modern man may deify science and technology and set up a religion of 'Scientific Humanism' which offers the utopian prospect of unlimited progress. But all such constructions are inevitably fragile, since they are dependent on human will as well as intelligence, and we have seen in our own generation how the irrational element in human nature may prove stronger than scientific intelligence.

Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.

Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

It takes an act of our own will to choose God's plan for possessing our inheritance.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

These are people whose names are lost to history, but when you have that kind of encounter, somehow you get a whole new perspective on what's of value and how to behave in the face of oppression, and the strength that any single person or a group of people can bring with their own will.

Feit is dat ik een levenslot in handen heb en me toch niet bij machte voel om vrijuit te scheppen: ik volg de verborgen lijn van het noodlot. Ik kan niet anders dan een waarheid zoeken die me te boven gaat.

Pero existirá la libertad sin el permiso previo de la locura

Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.