Volition Quotes

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. Helena Blavatsky
Mind Will Thought Feeling Gesture Organic Every See Mental Emotion Volition Voluntary Motion Whether Produced Act Internal Mechanical External
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Vile Own Hell Seek Volition Thus Souls Affinity Heaven Proceed Associate
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. Xenophon
Cause Hardships Will Leader Own Adhere Followers Steadfast Arduous Remaining Volition True Most Peril Forced Without Greatest Test True Test His Being Enduring Whether Moments
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. Yann Martel
Reality Interpretation Imagination Some Volition Part How Fiction Which Means Play Interpret Extent
I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York. J. K. Simmons
You Own More Volition Never Had New Come Know Sort Coming Doing Than Did York Scraping Intention New York Actually Career Plays
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. Richard Greenberg
Time Lost Circumstances Threat Volition Feels Like Still Passing Existential Standard Play Watch
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. Lionel Shriver
Experience Illusion Will Our Volition Perhaps Scientists Discover Clockwork Eventually
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake. Rick Perlstein
Dignity Conservative Fear Mind Will Convictions State Moral Shake Volition Soon Empirical Reach Reactionary Traces Conclusion Up Human Cannot Swallow Which Reason Based Deepest
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. Stephen Karam
Own Definitely See My Own Write Volition Happens Prefer
When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill. Samantha Harvey
Love Freedom Free Fall Our Ours Mutual Thrill Could Volition Part Feel Know Because Leave Person
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