Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

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.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

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.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own read more

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

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.]

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will--
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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.