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• Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

  Justina Chen

  Attitude, Real, Faces

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• Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not' In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Heart, Doubt

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• Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Willing, Dies, Shadowfever

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2015

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• We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

  Alan Watts

  Decision, Doe, Regression

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which do you believe in, luck or Destiny?" Joe considered a moment befoe replying, "We make our own luck, Ludlow, by our actions and our state of mind. As such you control your own fate. Oney one thing is certain: None of us can escape the grave.

  F.E. Higgins

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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• Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Littles, Moral, Justify

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• We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Real, Worry, Might

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• Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

  John le Carre

  Order, Answers, Sometimes

  1986 A Perfect Spy, ch.1.

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• Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Integrity, Judging, Childhood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.

  Alyson Noel

  Art, Clothes, Long

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• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Good Life, Science, Should

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Attitude, Determine, Bad Attitude

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• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Lonely, Distance

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• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Dream, Peace, War

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• That which holds our attention determines our action.

  Prince William

  Motivation, Vision, Attention

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• When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Water, Benefits, Bread

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  History, Made, Difficult

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.19, Best Books on

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• It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

  Tony Robbins

  Basketball, Impact, Important

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Believe, Judging

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• We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

  Arthur Golden

  Moving, Fighting, Use

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.127, Random House

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

  Kathryn Lasky

  Character, Blood, Made

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• The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Karma, Claims, Indifferent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.283, Modern Library

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