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The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.

~ T.f. Hodge

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The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

~ Anaïs Nin

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Do not let your boss, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors, or anyone push you around or walk all over you. This does not mean you need to be a butt-hole - but you may need to draw some clear lines for the people in your life. Want to do it right? Communicate expectations clearly, and consistently. People cannot treat you the way you want them to treat you unless you tell them HOW to treat you.

~ Josh Hatcher

Josh Hatcher Boundaries Confidence Manhood Passivity Relationships Self Respect

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Ahmed Mostafa Alas Do Something Endless Impatience Impatient Lost Love Lost Love Quotes Love Love Quotes Passive Passivity Too Long

I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

~ Derek Landy

Derek Landy Passivity Preparedness War

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Aspirations Authentic Bold Boldness Brave Bravery Calculated Risks Clue Dream Dreaming Dreams Genuine Goal Goals Great Greatness Mediocre Mediocrity Objectives Passive Passivity Real Risk Risk Taker Risking Risky Tenacious Tenacity Vision Visionary

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

~ Howard Zinn

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What we need to do is treat some of our thoughts like door to door salesmen. If someone comes to your door and asks if he can come inside and throw some dirt on your floor to demonstrate his vaccuum cleaner - you would probably tell him “No thanks! See you later!” And yet - if a friend stopped by with a meatloaf and wanted to visit - we’d say “Come on in!” We need to stop being PASSIVE about what thoughts can take residence in our head.

~ Josh Hatcher

Josh Hatcher Manhood Passivity Positive Thinking Positivity Self Control Self Help

That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke Control Passivity World

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~ Criss Jami

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Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Courage Courageous Mediocre People Mediocrity Passivity Sacrifice

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

~ Ryan Lilly

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Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

~ Oli Anderson

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Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

~ Robert Greene

Robert Greene Activity Conventionalism Creativity Passivity

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Swami Dhyan Giten Acceptance Awareness Creativity Dependence Destructivity Ego Exhaustion Freedom Inner Man And Woman Life Love Meditation Passivity Relationships Separation Struggle Understanding

Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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YOUNG WOMAN: Time is altered, the years to came are alteredYou know where you will find meI, fear, I, deathI, the memory beyond reachI, the recollection of the tenderness of your handsI, the sadness of our broken lifeI will defeat it's not my concern with my anguish

~ Griselda Gambaro

Griselda Gambaro Disappeared Passivity Silence Suffering

Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Vironika Tugaleva Desires Emotions Flow Going With The Flow Happiness Passive Passivity Self Awareness Self Love

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

~ Tennessee Williams

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He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Evil Good Life Passivity

Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Idealism + Inaction = Depression

~ Oli Anderson

Oli Anderson Action Activity Depresion Execution Idealism Passivity

Don't stare out the window, run through the fields.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Action Passivity

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

~ Donald Miller

Donald Miller Action Involvement Passivity Proactive

Feelings are great, and they have a purpose, but it’s certainly not to guide your life. Whoever said, “Follow your heart” was a fool. Your “heart” is your emotional center. Emotions have a great purpose - to allow us to enjoy life, to mourn loss, to have a tangible way to experience love - but feelings are fickle, and they are not meant to be the guiding force in our life.

~ Josh Hatcher

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With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.

~ Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi Confusion Ignorance Passivity

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Argument Ignorance Inaction Injustice Passivity

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

~ Julian Aguon

Julian Aguon Fear Passivity Silence

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Anarchy Cuba Government Passivity Revolution

The complacency of the individual who admires his own excellence is bad enough, but it is more respectable than the complacency of the man who has no self-esteem because he has not even a superficial self which he can esteem. He is not a person, not an individual, only an atom. This atomized existence is sometimes praised as humility or as self-sacrifice, some-times it is called obedience, sometimes it is devotion to the dialectic of class war. It produces a kind of peace which is not peace, but only the escape from an immediately urgent sense of conflict. It is the peace not of love but of anesthesia. It is the peace not of self-realization and self-dedication, but of flight into irresponsibility.

~ Thomas Merton

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Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.

~ Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima Acceptance Elegance Inaction Indifference Japan Passivity Refinement

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

~ Pere La Combe

Pere La Combe Passivity Patience Presumption Spirituality

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

~ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes Passivity Regret

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

~ Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky 1998 Acceptable Opinion Control Debate Limit Lively Debate Obedience Obedient Opinion Passive Passivity

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Autism Dreaming Effort Hesitation Inaction Passivity

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

~ Angela Carter

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Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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