#passive

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#experience #forgive #happiness #inspirational #life

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

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

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#give #indifferent #life #meaning #obligation

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#passive #beauty

Love without sacrifice is like theft ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#love #manipulation #marriage #marriage-advice #narcissism

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#i #imagination #passive #person #stretch

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #clergy #denied #faith