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.
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.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
The readiness of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
The readiness of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he read more
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he will not.
[Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann
nicht, so will er nicht.]
A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
