Volition Quotes
Volition Quote of the day
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.
All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.
Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.
Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.
