Best universal & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).”

“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.”

Men Doe Said Action Law Causes Plans Effects Design Position Equal Conscious Universal Eternity Harmony Originals Karma Unconscious Adjustment Resumes

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.”

Long Action Spirit Work Universal Poison Tire Traveller Vigor Arteries Nimble

Book:Love's Labor's Lost

Source: Love's Labor's Lost

“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”

Ifs Humans Doe Use Seems Action Certain Novel Dangerous Cost All Things Universal Rough Steers Artistry Effortless Practise Reefs Human Actions Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.”

Action Names Universal Adjustment Equilibrium

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.”

Source: The Poisoned Crown

“This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.”

Way Love Today Action Desire Love You Particular Theory Reflection Universal Remains Shoes Locals Bother Theme Plot Delicate Uncles Nephew Boisterous

Author:Glen Duncan

“To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.”

Self Done Seems Action Prayer Powerful Healing Failing Universal Gods Will Appeals Most Powerful Living Things Self Centered Bidding Universal Love Powerful Prayer Love Never Fails

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.”

Action Lines Dignity Universal Peaceful Primaries Angle Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Janet Collins

“In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.”

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.”

Hard Action Taken Universal Fingers Rings Poetry Is Covered Chests Household Emergencies Mixtures Vary Bittersweet Narcotics Stimulants

Author:Robert Graves

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.”

Should Writing May Has Beens Sometimes Action Law Certain Justice Cases Impossible Written Changed Ought Concerned All Things Universal

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.”

Should Action Form Law Understanding Nature All Things Universal Method Flaws Efficiency Ordinances Universal Laws Laws And Rules

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.”

Made Action Law Principles Universal Maxims Universal Laws

Author:Immanuel Kant

“With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Stories Might Action Lost Land Thirds Universal Appeals Might Have Been Exotic Third World Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.”

Action Universal Impact Dimensions Others Happiness Genuine Happiness

Book:Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.”

“First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.”

Ifs Men Firsts Matter Able Action Political Lying Existence Conditions Possibility Morality Universal Improvement Liberation What Matters Political Action

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.”

Country Hard States Problem Action United United States Influence Circumstances Majors Solutions Program Universal International Make Sense Cooperation

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.”

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”

Knows Needs Moments Action Speak Accepting Wonderful Strange Shapes Universal Eternity Flesh Clock Warmth Nests Hold Fast

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.”

“We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.”

“In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.”

“I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.”

Believe Action Spiritual Spirituality Force Results Universal Our Actions Deserving

Book:Million dollar habits

Source: Million dollar habits

“Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love in a more complete and final way, try to put them into action. A society based on universal compassion is not just our only hope; it is an evolutionary imperative.”

People World Way Trying Shows Problem Action Common Compassion Solutions Universal Finals Favors Compassionate Polls Imperatives

Book:The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”

Action Wonderful Divine Aspect Universal Bounds Supreme Chains Guidance Ties Free Will Schemes Thrones Flexible Supreme Being Divine Guidance

Book:The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment

Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment

“Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust.”

Ifs Want Heart Helping Action Desire Masters Keys Promise All Things Universal Guides Unlimited Plugs

Author:Walter Russell

“Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.”

Problem Action Causes Views Changed Optimism Universal Factors Temporary Contrast Stable Optimist Pessimist Susceptible

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”

Action Pain Remember Desire Evil Asks Speak Sides Share Demand Universal Victim Burden Contrary Appeals Engagement Tempting Perpetrators Bystanders Speak No Evil

Book:Trauma and recovery

Source: Trauma and recovery

“The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.”

People Country Helping Action Values Turns Culture Challenges Principles Unique Determination Universal Infinite Agendas Willingness Concrete Sensitivity

Author:Thoraya Obaid

“Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better.”

World Enough Play Helping Use Action Energy Force Situation Creation Universal Envisioning

Author:Esther Hicks

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