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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more
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.
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.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
