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Act Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people,…
- When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.
- The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.…
- Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each…
- I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking,…
- Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the…
- We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our…
- I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking,…
- In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living…
- Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
- By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple…
- Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will…
More Act Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt