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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life. -- Thomas A. Edison
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus. -- Anuj
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. -- Sigmund Freud
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. -- Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy. -- Jasper Carrott
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. -- Michel de Montaigne
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. -- Maude Adams
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. -- W. Somerset Maugham
You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation. -- Richard Stanley
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. -- Gore Vidal
I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action. -- Steven Seagal
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. -- Therese Fowler
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. -- Saint Augustine
I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record. -- Bill Bennett
I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them. -- Joel Silver
Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena! -- John Davidson
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. -- Abigail Adams
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. -- Mattie Stepanek
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. -- Bernard Baruch
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions. -- Khaled Hosseini
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. -- Paulo Coelho
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? -- Ronnie James Dio
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk. -- Action Bronson
Life is a purposeful action. -- Asa Don Brown
Infuse your life with action... -- Bradley Whitford
Life is the mode of action of proteins. -- Friedrich Engels
Sin is not just action. It's life direction. -- Mark Driscoll
Life and death do not wait for legal action. -- Daphne du Maurier
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. -- Haruki Murakami
Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life. -- Daniel D. Palmer
Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action. -- Mary Martin
Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. -- Rita Mae Brown
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action. -- George P. Shultz
Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key. -- Deron Williams
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. -- William Hazlitt
I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life. -- Mitt Romney
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action. -- Marcus Aurelius
A life which does not go into action is a failure. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut. -- Walton Goggins
Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation. -- David Wolfe
Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. -- Philip Sidney
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. -- M. Scott Peck
-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life. -- Lanie Bross
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action -- Aristotle
Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life -- Constance Chuks Friday
Touch of Ability with Action can never be lost in the journey of life. -- Kishore Bansal
I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action. -- Donald Trump
The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. -- Harold Bridgwood Walker
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest. -- Derric Yuh Ndim
Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life. -- Ray Metcalfe
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. -- Zachary Quinto
I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action. -- Cesar Millan
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. -- Donald Miller
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world. -- David Brin
Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go. -- Richard Branson
Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality. -- Sunny Deol
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. -- Vita Sackville-West
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. -- Gabriel Orozco
There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action. -- Millicent Fenwick
If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting. -- Melody Beattie
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? -- Tony Robbins
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life. -- Jackie Chan
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. -- Karl Barth
It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. -- Werner Erhard
Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure. -- James Allen
Regret is the longing for life's squandered opportunities; take action each day and strive to live without regret. -- Ken Poirot
Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. -- Oswald Mosley
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. -- Francis Quarles
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. -- Francis Kelley
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. -- Peter Levi
Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you. -- Henry J. Kaiser
I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's. -- Chris Vance
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought. -- Frederick William Robertson
If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action. -- Tom Rath
The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action. -- Swami Parthasarathy
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power. -- Georgia Harkness
Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action. -- Richard J. Foster
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. -- David J. Schwartz
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. -- Anita Shreve
Wisdom comes from life experience; life experience is the result of repeatedly taking corrective action while courageously learning from mistakes. -- Ken Poirot
I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything. -- Ramin Bahrani
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. -- Learned Hand
In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall. -- Emily Thorne
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -- Aristotle
Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural. -- Anuj
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action. -- Tony Robbins
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. -- Madame de Stael
I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff. -- Ernie Hudson
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. -- David Hume
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. -- Ben Sherwood
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. -- Rachel Carson
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much. -- Russell Kirk
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. -- Eckhart Tolle
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. -- Bradley Whitford
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. -- Rita Mae Brown
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. -- Eknath Easwaran

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