Active Quotes

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Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the… — Bradley Whitford
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the… — Paul Klee
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against… — Leon Trotsky
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then.… — Vincent Van Gogh
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not… — William Gibson
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be… — Christopher Hitchens
I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very… — Betty Ford
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a… — Rene Cassin
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this… — Jerome Bruner
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He… — Abraham Maslow
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a… — Luther Standing Bear
We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances — Florence Scovel Shinn
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive. — Cyndi Lee
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. — Thomas Brooks
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an… — Terence McKenna
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate. — Rollo May
Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause. — Martin Luther

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