Acting Quote by Paulo Coelho

Action and contemplation are...

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

— Thomas Merton

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

— Robert McNamara

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the…

— William Godwin

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life…

— Matthew Kelly

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

— James Allen

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our…

— Emile M. Cioran

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by…

— Alfred North Whitehead

We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or…

— Ernest Holmes

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart…

— Henry Walter Bates