{"quotes":[{"text":"Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...","author":"Alexander Zalan","tags":["aspiration","desire","japan","volition"],"id":19188,"author_id":"Alexander+Zalan"},{"text":"«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["accomplishment","choice","life","volition"],"id":20141,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"The Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra-Growth in an enterprise is created through remarkable achievements, not incremental achievements like efficiency or effectiveness.-Remarkable achievements are possible only in complexity.-Only volitional engagement can work in complexity. Luckily, there is no certainty in complexity. Hence, motivational engagement cannot work.-People who make choices based on the purpose can only be volitionally engaged—they are the growth managers, the leaders.","author":"Amit Chatterjee","tags":["choice","growth","leadership","managers","motivation","volition"],"id":42232,"author_id":"Amit+Chatterjee"},{"text":"All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh.","author":"Bahá'u'lláh","tags":["potential","qualities","talents","volition"],"id":53901,"author_id":"Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h"},{"text":"I have a choice. That’s why I’m still here.","author":"Amy Neftzger","tags":["choice","commitment","stamina","staying-power","victory","volition"],"id":84941,"author_id":"Amy+Neftzger"},{"text":"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 way that he’d never had a girlfriend.He shrugged again.“You’re not serious.”“You’re surprised?”“I’m sorry, do you own a mirror?”Joel laughed in that I’ll-never-understand-women kind of way. “I’ve never wanted one,” he admitted, though it seemed that there was more to it.“What? A mirror? Or a girlfriend?”He laughed again, even harder this time. “A girlfriend.”“Are you gay?” He smiled. “No, I’m not gay.”“Oh.” I blushed. Why was I being so nosy all of a sudden?","author":"Shawn Kirsten Maravel","tags":["love","romance","severance","volition","young-adult"],"id":93772,"author_id":"Shawn+Kirsten+Maravel"},{"text":"All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart.","author":"Lily Paradis","tags":["contemporary","drama","jesse-elliott","romance","tate-mckenna","volition"],"id":109535,"author_id":"Lily+Paradis"},{"text":"No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.","author":"Andrzej Sapkowski","tags":["endure","enduring","fate","suffer","suffering","volition"],"id":165583,"author_id":"Andrzej+Sapkowski"},{"text":"In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant — the historical event. This may again itself be viewed as the product of a power which works as a whole unconsciously and without volition. For what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. Thus history has proceeded hitherto in the manner of a natural process and is essentially subject to the same laws of motion. But from the fact that the wills of individuals — each of whom desires what he is impelled to by his physical constitution and external, in the last resort economic, circumstances (either his own personal circumstances or those of society in general) — do not attain what they want, but are merged into an aggregate mean, a common resultant, it must not be concluded that they are equal to zero. On the contrary, each contributes to the resultant and is to this extent included in it.","author":"Friedrich Engels","tags":["aggregate","collectivism","economics","historical-materialism","history","individual","power","unconscious","volition","will"],"id":206790,"author_id":"Friedrich+Engels"},{"text":"This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?","author":"Max Planck","tags":["determinism","free-will","laws-of-nature","science","universe","volition"],"id":274632,"author_id":"Max+Planck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}