Quotes about Activity

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.

What have you been doing lately?' 'I? Oh, minding the house—pouring out syrup—pretending to be amiable and contented—learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.

connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate);

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.