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Quotes About Engagement

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
~ Wallace Stegner
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.
~ Adam Granduciel
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
~ Andy Greenwald
You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.
~ Barack Obama
One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.
~ Ben Gazzara
Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
~ Carl Jung
Seek above all for a game worth playing. Play as if your life and sanity depend on it, because they do!
~ Robert S. de Ropp
Best way to learn how life works is to have the guts to truly go out and live it!
~ Robin Sharma
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
~ Roger Housden
The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life
~ Stana Katic
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
~ Viggo Mortensen
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.
~ Wes Bentley
I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.
~ Mark Nepo
Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
~ Robin Morgan
Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.
~ Charles Haley
Sicilee and Maya are both convinced that once they catch Cody Lightfoot's attention they are as good as on their first date with him, if not actually engaged.
~ Dyan Sheldon
A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.
~ Dylan Wiliam
The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach.
~ Dylan Wiliam