Best roots & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

World Firsts Persons Book Action Reading Understanding Steps Scene Empathy Training Roots First Steps Not Alone Understanding You

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?”

Ifs Want Trying States Government Action Jobs Roots Get Back Governors Pivotal Centralization

Author:Rick Perry

“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”

Want Action Earth Form Universe Energy Heaven Animal Taken Adventure Fit Roots Conclusion Buried Extinction Want U Old Days Recycled Microorganisms

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?”

Doe Action Prayer Speech Reflection Roots Representatives Candid

Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.”

Moments Character Action Past Emotional Protect Shadow Roots Patterns Wounds Reactions Present Moment Protect You Sabotage Emotional Wounds

Author:Connie Zweig

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.”

Kind Action Roots Love And Kindness Kindness To Others Small Acts Of Kindness

Author:Amelia Earhart

“God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.”

Kind Action Choices Decision Levels Roots Causality Free Choice

Author:Francis George

“Silence, and non action are the root of all things.”

Action Silence All Things Roots

Author:Zhuangzi

“There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.”

Knows Said Action Humanity Heaven Virtue Return Roots Core Supreme Internals Heavenly

Author:Zhuangzi

“The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.”

Needs Country Reality Action Order Community Roots Violent Practicals Cooperation Extremism Muslim Community Homegrown

Author:Marco Rubio

“If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Wisdom Action Desire Evil Wish Results Cutting Divine Crosses Roots Intention Ruins Islamic Inward Wrath

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”

Ifs Love Feels Matter Reason Action Simple Existence Compassion Honesty Intellectual Roots True Love Guides Motive Old Fashioned Imperatives Intellectual Honesty

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

Ifs Long Action Evil Trouble Tree Effects Cost Roots Visible Posterity Hardwood

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”

Knows Mind Ideas Self Facts Action Given Existence Consciousness Reflection Direct Roots Contact Observation Recognise Self Consciousness Inference

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.”

Thinking Kind Mean Helping Action Purpose Certain Strong Religious Achieve Judging Discipline Roots Patience Stability Strong Roots

Author:George W. Bush

“The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”

Reason Action Causes Principles Effects Roots Conclusion Motive Premises

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.”

People Knows Needs Feels Art Might Action Life Is Lying Wish Behinds Struggle Honest Roots Being Honest Telling The Truth Life Struggle

Author:Deb Caletti

“Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”

Matter Whole Action Names Peace Community Responsibility Moral Willing Morality Roots Worthy Genuine Serving Serving Others Moral Duty Rights And Responsibilities Serving The Community

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.”

Men Doe Action Joy Silence Wise Quiet Concern All Things Roots Moved Emptiness Stillness Sage Inaction Tranquillity

Author:Zhuangzi

“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”

Light Action Joy Mother Nature Silence Integrity Flow All Things Roots Unity Invisible Mysterious Purity Visible Wholeness Unseen Sweetness Fountain Gentleness Meek

Author:Thomas Merton

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