Activity Quotes
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
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I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It's my body's emergency system.
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
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Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion, and activity that fulfills them. It also taught me some of the many skills I need as an entrepreneur: a hard work ethic that takes practice to master and the confidence to persevere through any challenges.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
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There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
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...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims...
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Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.
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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
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Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.
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Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
