Active Quotes

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'?

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

Being in good shape is my lifestyle, and I can't remember a time when I was out of shape. I try to live an active lifestyle and mix up all types of activities like fighting, running and swimming.

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.