Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Summary

This quote emphasizes the difference between the emotions we feel and the actions we take. It suggests that while we have limited control over our feelings of love, we do have the ability to control our behaviors and how we express that love. It implies that even if we cannot force ourselves to feel a certain way, we still have agency over how we choose to act, making the point that actions can have a stronger and more reliable impact than emotions alone.

Topics

Love

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Humor

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... d

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Race Boats

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the g

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Truth

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's great

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Money

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

Government

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the p

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how important storytelling is among tribal peoples; it forms the basis of their educational systems. The Celtic peoples, for example, insisted that only the poets could be teachers. Why? I think it is because knowledge that is not passed through the heart is dangerous: it may lack wisdom; it may be a power trip; it may squelch life out of the learners. What if our educational systems were to insist that teachers be poets and storytellers and artists? What transformations would follow?

Storytelling

My family, my parents are hippies.

My family, my parents are hippies.

Family

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to b

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

Christina Aguilera

Business

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Home

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Timothy Radcliffe

Faith

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whateve

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Music

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.