All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.
When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.
Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken. . . a useless thing. Then make an offer.
I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Always act as if you were seen.
Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters
Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.