Quotes of: Creative-act Keyword

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.

Monsters of Men

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.

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

Maybe Someday

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.

Night Flight

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

New Man, New Troubles

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.

Notebooks

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.

Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977

Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it - in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act.

Lies Beneath

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

Laughing Buddha

If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing.

The Love Dare

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

The Lost Hero

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

Love Warps the Mind a Little

Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.

The Love Mindset

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Life of Pi

Unexpected Elizabeth wasn’t falling into his arms as he’d anticipated, even after he had acted heroic and been valiantly injured. Perhaps he lost her.

Lothaire

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

Live Your Truth

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Lavinia

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts