It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.
Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.
We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the same for an actor with a new role.
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
