Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Any reaction is better than none.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an
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