Our Actions Quotes - Page 2

• Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

  Kent Nerburn

  Humble, Self, Play

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• The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

  Yann Martel

  Karma, Way, Path

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.

  Muhammad Asad

  Reality, Men, Europe

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.92, The Book Foundation

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• We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Exercise, Absent, Epicureanism

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivational, Destiny, Keys

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

  Christopher Paolini

  Punishment, World, Want

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• Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Desire, Want

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• For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Thinking, Spirit

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.40

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• We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

  George Chapman

  Action, Worthy

  George Chapman, James Shirley (1824). “The Ball”, p.66

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• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Reflection, Fundamentals

  William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

  Annie Besant

  May, Morality, Adaptation

  Annie Wood Besant (2011). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Unfinished Work, Long, Remembrance

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Remembrance

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Destiny, Omission, Action

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• True faith manifests itself through our actions.

  Francis Chan

  Action, True Faith

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.95, David C Cook

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• It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stars, Attitude, Distance

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.33, Harmony

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• Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

  Blaise Pascal

  Causes, Morality, Source

  Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew “PensŽes”, Hackett Publishing

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• Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

  David Suzuki

  Carbon Cycle, Water, Upset

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• Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Talking, Weakness, Too Much

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• Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Spring, Taken

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• In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Teaching, Ignorance

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• We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  September 11, Events, Determined

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• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, Feelings, Balance

  "Exclusive Interview With Yo Yo Ma on the Spirituality of Music". Interview with Laurence Vittes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

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• God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.

  Joyce Meyer

  Wise, Offending, Listening

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Race, Self, Preservation

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