Active Quotes

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

Faith is an active creative force.

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running... I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.

I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.