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Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of read more
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'.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
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.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.
