"A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace."
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"Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness"
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"Now is the time when your action is practice."
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"The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action."
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"We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values."
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"What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives."
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"Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences."
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"One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out."
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"I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences."
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"You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies."
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"When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress."
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"By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events."
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"If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender."
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"Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains."
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""Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation."
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"I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!"
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"There is always a gap between intention and action."
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"This, and no other, is justice: to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice."
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"Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God."
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"Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation."
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