Action Quote by Thomas Nagel

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work…

— Sigmund Freud

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human agency, the ability to affect the surrounding world, may be a result not so simply of conscious choice - but instead a result…

— Wikipedia

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're…

— Ayad Akhtar

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance.…

— Howard Gardner

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do…

— Dion Fortune

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain…

— Gary Zukav

“On the other hand, we can all call to mind the case of seeing the same thing many times over and over. Everyone has…

— Tagawa Shun'ei

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

— Anonymous

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

— Jaron Lanier

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's…

— Anthony de Mello

We may not always have control over what comes at us externally, but we always have a choice as to how we react.

— Terry Mark