Quotes About Volition

No, the essence of prayer is volition, so the essence of blasphemy is volition. She

to be conscious by choice

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

Sometimes the best way of killing a person is to let him choose his own fate.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.

True will is wishing backed by power

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now? CHAPTER 37 When

We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker tabile is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent

The four foundations of mindfulness are the body (breathing, changes in posture, activities), feelings (the senses of pleasantness, unpleasantness, and neutrality), the mind (in particular, its moods and attitudes), and the objects of mind (which include the five senses but also other mental states, such as volition, tranquility, rapture, equanimity, and even mindfulness itself).

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

You can do what you want but you cannot want what you want.

He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Era asombrosa la amplitud de lo que uno mismo era capaz de no ver tan solo empeñándose en una ceguera más rigurosa todavía porque era voluntaria.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.