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“Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.”

Feels Community Conscious Consequence Vulnerability Courageous Participation Heartfelt Be Courageous Unending

Author:David Whyte

“The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.”

Giving Feels I Can Book Today Fiction Highest Consequence Science Fiction Manage Unexpected Compliment Surreal Relentless

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.”

Thinking Men Feels Wells I Can Matter Reality Courses Honest Honesty Depends Consequence Concerned Mark Notion Obstacles Well Being Relative Lunatic Honest Man Rationale Relative Truth

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

“Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Reid, D. D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters

“Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.”

Feels Atheism Policy Consequence Positive Atheism Judged Crusades

Book:Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.”

Feels Heart Eye Film Consequence Ears Selfish Familiarity Solicitude

Book:Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads

“We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.”

Feels Long Reason Action President Term Judging Citizens Consequence Negative Impact Campaigns Long Term Presidency Comeback Public Trust

Author:David Greenberg

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.”

Thinking Knows Feels Ideas Sometimes Hard Stories Taken Fire Information Consequence Reputation Comedian Confusing Schizophrenic

Author:Tim Heidecker

“How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?”

Feels Soul Shows Wonder Wind Consequence Buying Jealous Insecure Compensation Inadequacy Compliance Fugitive Power Over Others

Author:James Hollis

“I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.”

Knows Feels Mind Christian Morality Consequence Brown Toms Furnaces

Author:George MacDonald

“The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.”

Way Feels Ends Bigs Honest Conversation Findings Consequence

Author:John Green

“Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.”

Feels Happens Action Life Is Results Silence Hell Consequence Inevitable Damn Nothingness Screws Implications Loving Someone How You Feel Whatever Happens Screwed Up

Author:Janis Joplin

“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.”

People Ifs Feels Believe Mean Has Beens Said Might Mistake Consequence Making Mistakes They Said People Make Mistakes

Author:Katherine Heigl

“To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

Feels Heart Stills Action Form Speak Consciousness Moral Democracy Gratitude Conscience Consequence Abundance Have Faith Invites Disobedience Civil Disobedience Moral Action

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.”

People Feels Important Together Community Results Succeed Consequence Connections Accomplish

Author:Richard Cornuelle

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”

People Ifs Way Feels Important Whole Helping Consequence Claims Activism Useless Fabric Counterproductive

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.”

Feels Should Results Policy Consequence Oneself Feel Good Foreign Policy Justified Tangible

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?”

People Ifs Knows Feels May Persons Doe Facts Action Christ Sin Hell Eternal Consequence Bases Bounds Folks Refuse Favors Lifestyle Feel Good Repent

Book:Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God

Source: Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.”

“Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.”

Feels Matter Feelings Reality Hurt Deals Truth Is Consequence Bases Uncomfortable Telling The Truth Truth Hurts Inconvenient Truth

Author:Jack Canfield

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”

Ifs Way Feels May Matter Choices Term Results Powerful Situation Doubt Influence Consequence Increase Arise Frustrated Powerless Decrease Powerlessness There Is Always A Way

Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe

“What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.”

“One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.”

People Feels Trying Book Issues Groups Internet Consequence Grateful Presses Topics Infrastructure Urgent Tubes Free Press Nonprofits

Author:Astra Taylor

“With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."”

Feels Years May War Lying Causes Consequence Years Ago Iraq Lama Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Desire Left Wish Challenges Team Cold Consequence Very Good Companion Good Team

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.”

People Thinking Feels Different Real Sometimes Hard Political Culture Sports Watches Our Lives Consequence Real Life Different Things Personal Life Political Change

Author:Ben H. Winters

“I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.”

Thinking Knows Feels Shows Might Political Religious Opinion Possibility Consequence Discussion Uncomfortable Giants Political Opinions

Author:Norm MacDonald

“If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Believe Two Seems I Believe Steps Consequence I Believe In Being True

Author:Peyton Manning

“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.”

Feels States Difficult Achieve Emotional Consequence Mere Unhappy Live Life Stable Heels Head Over Heels Emotional Things

Author:Nick Hornby

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”

Feels Action Evil Smart Consequence Patience Endure Connected Commit Hasty

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.”

“at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.”

Feels Firsts Said Two Suffering Next Sides Blood Honesty Consequence Assuming Very Good Hearing Laughed Next Day Using Me Kidneys Forthcoming

Author:Paul Neilan

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”

Knows World Feels Trying Two Home Artist Suffering Consequence Call Me Bourgeois Two Worlds

Book:Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

“I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”

Men Feels Felt Consequence Absurd Interfere Swollen

Author:Alice Munro

“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”

Source: Simple Passion

“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.”

“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.”

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Knows World Feels Stills Speak Know How Cutting Blood Consequence Ears Tongue Pounds Do You Know Breakdown Verge Ribbons

Author:Jodi Picoult

“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

People Feels Enough Politics Liberty Grace Nice Economic Consequence Notion Being Nice Entitlement

Author:Thomas Sowell

“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.”

Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.”

“Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.”

Feels Trying Mind Firsts Hard Life Is Purpose Understanding Goal Results Accepting Activity Ego Consequence Harder Relate Relax Relaxation Tense No Point Being There

Author:Rajneesh

“Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.”

Feels Certain Perfect Consequence Be Good

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting