Activity Quotes

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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. — Charlaine Harris
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuitâ€”for any seasonâ€”sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out… — Dan B. Allender
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to… — Margaret Atwood
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity… — Shunryu Suzuki
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything… — John Stuart Mill
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of Godâ€™s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. — Corrie Ten Boom
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
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
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. — Honore de Balzac
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… — Nikolai Gogol
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. — Oswald Chambers
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,… — Peter Singer
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your… — Dante Alighieri
...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A… — Erma Bombeck

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