#passive

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#been #considered #i #issues #justice

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#any #before #being #being in love #boyfriend

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#pleasure

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#above #bears #blazing #hope #passively

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. ↗

— William Bernbach

#energetic #evil #good #out #passive

Active Evil is better than Passive Good. ↗

— William Blake

#better #evil #good #passive #than

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#becoming #comes #crucial #enthusiasm #examination

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#beliefs #come #creator #doing #down