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    Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

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All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Will Quotes,
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a read more

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Found in: Will Quotes,
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Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he read more

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Will Quotes,
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
[Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, read more

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
[Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt
sich.]

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A boy's will is the wind's will.

A boy's will is the wind's will.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

by Georg C. Lichtenberg Found in: Apathy Quotes,
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He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, read more

He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Will Quotes,
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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers read more

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

by English Proverb Found in: Will Quotes,
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