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Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. Madeleine L'Engle
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ben Edwards quote: "Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by..."
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. Ben Edwards
Alice Walker quote: "Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
Activism is my rent for living on the planet. Alice Walker
... active wisdom--an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] Mary Catherine Bateson
Edward Gibbon quote: "Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such..."
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. Edward Gibbon
Active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very moment when you see with horror that despite all your efforts, you not only have not come nearer your goal but seem to have gotten farther from it, at that very moment--I predict this to you--you will suddenly reach your goal and will clearly behold over you the wonder-working power of the Lord, who all the while has been loving you, and all the while has been... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' Scott Thompson
Shoshana Zuboff quote: "Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert..."
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. Shoshana Zuboff
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. John Simon
Thomas Kempis quote: "Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who..."
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. Thomas Kempis
William Blake quote: "Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. William Blake
John George Nicolay quote: "Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp..."
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry. John George Nicolay
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. William Ames
Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the... Leo Tolstoy

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