“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsWellsKindMadeAmericaFatherCircumstancesActivityOfficeGood ThingsPostsEmployeeModestPost Office Author:David Rubenstein
“Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.” ShouldDiesCommonActivityNobleDedicationTestimonyVocationCommon GoodMartyrdomPractise Author:Pope Francis
“I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.” IfsThinkingShouldGovernmentReligiousActivityWorshipOrganizationGood WorkDoing GoodCongregationProselytizing Author:Jim Wallis
“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.” ThinkingWorldShouldSelfHelpingSchoolSelf EsteemStudentsBuildingActivityLowsIndependentSelf ConfidenceEsteemObedienceLow Self EsteemSchool Buildings Author:Alison Lurie
“Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.” ShouldMindMeanActionLevelsCompassionActivityTrainingEngaging Author:Gelek Rimpoche
“Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.” MenShouldMeanArtRealLawInfluenceActivityAuthorityPoliceInstitutionsCourtPeacefulOperationsFactoriesJoyousCharitableInspectionLaw Courts Author:Leo Tolstoy
“We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?” ThinkingWorldShouldProblemRealizingFocusActivityAskingShould IImbalance Book:The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul Source: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” WayLifeShouldFirstsFormExistenceSituationEnvironmentSeaChangedActivityOceanThreatEnvironmentalCuriousConservationThreatenedOur EnvironmentSinisterEnvironmentalistBiologistMarine LifeSave The EnvironmentOcean SeaSilent SpringOceans And SeasSea LifeThe Wild NatureBeach And OceanBeach OceanOcean ConservationMarine BiologyMarine BiologistWild Sea Book:The Sea Around Us Source: The Sea Around Us
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.” PeopleShouldLife IsSleepBalancePeriodsActivityLaborThirdsEnjoyedDividedIdlenessRecreationRebuildingLife BalanceTime Periods Author:Brigham Young