#actions

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #life #man #purpose #realization

Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader. ↗

— Maya Banks

#cruelty #life #life-and-living #suffering #life

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#actions #against #drink #effect #kinds

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #rhythms #time #life

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#comes #dare #fully #her #his

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him ↗

— Carole Glickfeld

#love #quiet #love

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

The linages between the nodes that form the web of life- how delightful. ↗

— Gladys Chua

#interactions #nature #web-of-life #nature

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#drop #good-works #ocean #work