Quotes About Involvement

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. That is because you are now genuinely involved in making things better. You are minimizing the unnecessary suffering. You are encouraging those around you, by example and word. You are constraining the malevolence in your own heart and the hearts of others.

If you are not communicating about anything that engages other people, then the value of your communication—even the value of your very presence—risks falling to zero.

And if you're not thinking such things through, then you're not acting responsibly as a parent. You're leaving the dirty work to someone else, who will be much dirtier doing it.

I'm a collaborator and opponent even when I'm not talking. I can't help it. My expressions broadcast my response, even when they're subtle.

Puedo conceder que el Gobierno desconozca al pueblo, pero creo que el pueblo conoce menos al Gobierno. Hay funcionarios inútiles, malos, si usted quiere, pero también los hay buenos y si éstos no pueden nada hacer, es porque se encuentran con una masa inerte: la población que toma poca participación en las cosas que le atañen.

In critical moments, to declare oneself neutral is to be exposed to the wrath of both the contending parties.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

I would like to thank everyone who is mentioned in this book for being part of the story of our relationship, particularly Mike's parents, Sharron and Bill Herbert. I am grateful, as well, to Toby Johnson for his insightful comments

Why did they continue to enter Lodges until they had the rule of them? There must have been something more in their association, for they had their clubs, societies, and learned fellowships.

You learn more by trying than by watching," Brackenfur replied.

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another man's alienation. Readiness to become over-involved is a form of tyranny practiced by children, prima donnas and lords, placing feelings above moral rules that should have made society safe for interaction.

The Court explicitly rejected the argument that the government had to show that the consent to a search had to involve a person's "knowing" waiver of his or her rights.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

The reason for this was not that the subject was simple enough to be explained without mathematics, but rather that it was much too involved to be fully accessible to mathematics.

The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

The psalmist's and the Christian's waiting and watching—that is, hoping—is based on the conviction that God is actively involved in his creation and vigorously at work in redemption.

Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.