Quotes Tagged "volition"

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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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?
Tags: young-adult, volition, severance, romance, love
Yet, the existential intellection has disregarded the possibility that a coming-into-being as not a finality but a process and that it is a making of meaning from the ground zero, for we are incomplete beings. Being is nothing but containment of essence, and the precedent-will has to be taken a priori to coming-to-being. Because we are choosing to become a volitional being.
Tags: will-power, volition, resistance, meaning-of-life, inspiration, individualism, existentialism, existence, being
His primacy of self and willingness to perpetuate his will go beyond death and toward perfection.
Tags: will-power, volition, revolt, resistance, meaning-of-life, inspiration, individualism, existentialism, existence, being