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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'.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human 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),
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in read more
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in error.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.
At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.