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'.
You May Also Like / View all maxioms
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.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
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.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
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.]
I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will--
read more
I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will--
My will enkindled my by mine and ears
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
Of will and judgment.
