Aspect Quote by William Hazlitt

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

— Alan Watts

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

— William Hazlitt

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

— Duane Elgin

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

— Samuel Johnson

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself…

— Anonymous

Love is voluntary. We love by choice, not demand.

— Anonymous

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without…

— Tim Kreider

“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often…

— Laurie Matthew