~ Action Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.

John Fortunato

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Wordsworth

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.

Ashley Montagu

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

Alan Paton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Learned Hand

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

David Herbert Lawrence

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) 'I trust you; do what you must' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

Olga Ilyin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

Curtis Grant

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of science or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

Louis Pasteur

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Mary Gardiner Brainard

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Natalie Goldberg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride but when we attempt to steer the course the momentum dies.

Sue Atchley Ebaugh

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Thomas Merton