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• It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Goal, Challenges, Vision

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.172, Penguin

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• What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Feelings, Perception

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• Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Lying, Makeup

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.29, Penguin

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, Our Society, Slim

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• You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Choices

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Aug 08, 2016

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• Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Law, Causes

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• Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

  Fred Reed

  Character, Games, Class

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• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

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• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

  Andrew Samwick

  Smart, Believe, Cutting

  "A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  Xunzi

  Evil, Human Nature, Goodness

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• Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

  John W. Gardner

  Real, Creativity, Science

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• The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

  Peter McWilliams

  Taken, Practice, Religion

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

  Pope Pius XI

  Character, Order, Class

  Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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• This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behaviour and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed Natureäs inherent unity.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Men, Unity, Ignorant

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.9, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Progress, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.274, Harvard University Press

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• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  Plato

  Children, War, Sleep

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.

  Clarence Francis

  Happiness, Science, Historical

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• If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Morality, Results

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not related to users' trail activities at all. In fact, no actual contact among trail users need occur for conflict to be felt.

  Roger Moore

  Groups, Different, Needs

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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• Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

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• Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Body, May

  'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 30

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