Quotes About Engagement

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

Life is a game, play it.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

I am at my most powerful when I am working with life rather than against it.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Postpone not your life.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.