#actions

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us. ↗

— Ryel Kestenbaum

#barriers #burden #civilization #distractions #freedom

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#leaders #leadership #responsibility #leadership

The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them. ↗

— Will Davis

#choices #life #life

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#logic #nature #nature

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#darkness #human-nature #optimism #perception #perspective

When love comes first, actions will follow. ↗

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#love #relationships #relationship

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#distraction #distractions #good #great #i

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#decisions #democracy #essence #expression #freedom

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. ↗

— James Baldwin

#deeds #denied #even #experience #finding

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#culture #customers #industry #much #reactions