Active Quotes

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that… — Robert Cormier
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an… — Jodi Picoult
I was taken to an examining room where a big butch nurse practitioner came in and asked me if I was pregnant. â€œNo way!â€ Was… — Tina Fey
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the… — Jonathan Carroll
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name… — Jeanette Winterson
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and… — Oliver Sacks
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only… — Mary Wollstonecraft
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives,… — Martin Luther
The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not… — Libba Bray
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. â€œActive little pup, isnâ€™t he?â€ â€œShe,â€ corrected his wife. â€œAs if any child of… — Gail Carriger
Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. — Haruki Murakami
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful… — Edward Abbey
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a… — Oscar Wilde

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