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Action Quotes - Page 111

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

"The secret to happiness? It's complicated" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.63

I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

Jon Elster (1999). “Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.184

The best choices will always be the most loving.

John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.86, Mandeville Press

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.469

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman