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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

  Alan Watts

  Meditation, Humans, Human Activity

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.67, New World Library

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• We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Believe, Knowing

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Differences

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• There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

  Miroslav Volf

  Space, Worship, Should

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• Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Empowering, Pursuit, Humankind

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• The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

  Dave Gorman

  Inspiration, Breathing, Two

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• To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .

  Edgar Cayce

  Prayer, Mean, Self

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• I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

  Alan Brien

  Doe, Done, Drainage

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• Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

  John Templeton

  Prayer, Hate, Persons

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.32, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

  Frank Gaffney

  Sea, Events, Dozen

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Land, Water

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• A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Unnecessary, Should

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• The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens you more. In fact, when you refrain from absorbing the energy around you, you’ll remain clear and grounded, you’ll be able to easily access your creative and intuitive channel, and you’ll be able to choose to use the messages you receive from your Higher Self.

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, Cutting, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Jan 28, 2014

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• Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

  Michael Porter

  Mean, Unique, Being Different

  Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1700, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Inspirational, Holiday, Order

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• Saying yes to God isn't about perfect performance, but rather perfect surrender to the Lord day by day. Your obedience becomes radical the minute this desire turns into real action. Radical obedience is hearing from God, feeling His nudges, participating in His activity, and experiencing His blessings in a way few people ever do.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Real, Blessing, People

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “What Happens When Women Say Yes to God Devotional”, p.31, Harvest House Publishers

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• People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ...It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.

  Duane Hanson

  Hard Work, Frustration, Elderly

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• Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

  Bruce Lee

  Anxiety, Ongoing, Gaps

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Enlightened, Persons

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• All growth depends upon activity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hard Work, Growth, Hardwork

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

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• Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

  Aristotle

  Soul, Virtue, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.30

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