All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is…

The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing…

— Ramesh S Balsekar

“So, how is it that you don’t have a girlfriend?” I asked boldly. Joel shrugged. “Have you ever had a girlfriend?” There was no…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me to hope,…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling…

— Thomas Carlyle

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and…

— David Hume

Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.

— Daniel D. Palmer

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it…

— Mary Karr

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The…

— Franz Bardon

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious…

— Edward Dahlberg

“‎''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,…

— Jerry Fodor

“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and…

— Hugh Prather

“...are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surpring…

— Stephen Donaldson