Active Quotes

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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped â€” it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange… — Eugene H. Peterson
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is… — Marshall McLuhan
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to… — Salvador Dali
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. — Jonathan Safran Foer
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and… — Tad Williams
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to… — Henry Miller
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — Jane Austen
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and… — George Orwell
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose… — John Milton
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me… — Hermann Hesse
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive… — Bell Hooks
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King

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