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“In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.”

Inspirational Needs States Energy Loss Ability Results Activity Function Satisfaction Release Items Completion Prioritize Completing

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

Mind Stills Process Ability Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Reflection Midst Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.”

Years Kind Desire Sex Ability Half Millions Mankind Activity Female Males Organs Splits Lacking Sexual Desire Reproducing

Book:Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution

Source: Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution

“Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.”

Success Ability Careers Buddhism Activity Determine Dependent Manifest Business Success Success In Life Willpower Success And Failure Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.”

Kind Ability Existence One Thing Example Activity Benefits Economics Invention Inventor Patents Supermarkets

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ability to make dreams reality, everything.”

Way Dream Reality Ability Money Our Lives Activity Everyday Our Relationship Dream Reality

Book:The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying

Source: The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying

“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”

World Needs May Children Helping Spiritual Mother Ability Wise Son Blessing Activity Intellectual Blessed Motherhood Maturity Broads Association Manhood Scope Threshold Thrice Babyhood

Author:Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence”

People May Self Ability Levels Opinion Talent Activity Judgment Rely Competence Inference Self Efficacy Appraisal Limited Knowledge

Author:Albert Bandura

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.”

Way Wells Children Doe Together Parent Ability Healthy Activity Our Children Active Tendencies Joyful Contests Adversaries Sibling Energetic Rivalry Sibling Rivalry

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent