As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Hannah Arendt on Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
~ Hannah Arendt
Meg Wolitzer on Doing Something
“It still doesn’t take away a desire to do something, even if you really fuck it up.” She smiles. It’s the beginning of everything, in life as in fiction. “The desire to do something”.
~ Meg Wolitzer / The Guardian, June 1st, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/01/meg-wolitzer-interview
Hunter Thompson on Choices
“Whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Hunter Thompson on Adventure
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
~ Hunter Thompson
Buddha on Action
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
~ Buddha
William Shakespeare on Timeliness
“A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.”
~ William Shakespeare
Thomas Fuller on Effort
“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”
~ Thomas Fuller
William Shakespeare on Vengeance
“The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
“Talkers are no good doers.”
~ William Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt on Action
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Seamus Heaney on Action
“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done.”
~ Seamus Heaney