Quotes About Volition

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.

There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

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You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

Bienvenido a mi casa! ¡Entre libremente y por su propia voluntad!

Bienvenido a mi morada. Entre libremente, por su propia voluntad, y deje parte de la felicidad que trae

what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you "have a name" is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition — and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph.

You made a choice, you get what you choose.

The third nutriment is volition. This is your desire, your hope, your aspiration. It's the energy that keeps you alive. You want to be someone. You want to do something with your life. If you're motivated by compassion and love, your volition will give you the energy and direction to grow and become even more loving and compassionate.

Acts done by my body against my will are not my acts.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is - by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.

Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're not free to choose your desires.

As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're