Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.
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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own read more
You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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),
