Activity Quotes

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There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something… — Erich Fromm
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I… — Henry Rollins
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity — Alison Bechdel
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… — Erich Fromm
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. — Gretchen Rubin
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane… — Henry Miller
We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice… — James Patterson
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and… — Oscar Wilde
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. — Jean Vanier
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a… — Margaret Wise Brown
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform… — Albert Camus
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call… — Neil Gaiman
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults… — Paul Brunton
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… — John Marsden
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city… — Terry Pratchett
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing… — Gabrielle Zevin
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's… — Natalie Goldberg

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