#actions

Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader. ↗

— Maya Banks

#cruelty #life #life-and-living #suffering #life

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #rhythms #time #life

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him ↗

— Carole Glickfeld

#love #quiet #love

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#desire #good #action

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#action

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#character #destiny #habits #thoughts #words

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions. ↗

— Mike Dooley

#gumption #thoughts #words #dreams