Quotes About Engagement

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.