Quotes about Energy

Part of acknowledging suffering is acknowledging we need help. It is much easier to practice compassion if you have the energy and support of a community.

If we're aware of the habit energies in us and can become more intentional in our thoughts, speech, and actions, then we can transform not only ourselves, but also our ancestors who planted the seeds. If we're able to do that, it means our ancestors are also able to smile at what is provoking them. If one person keeps calm and smiles at a provocation, the whole world will have a better chance for peace.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

For at sixteen I had imagined that Blake, like the other romantics, was glorifying passion, natural energy, for their own sake. Far from it! What he was glorifying was the transfiguration of man's natural love, his natural powers, in the refining fires of mystical experience: and that, in itself, implied an arduous and total purification, by faith and love and desire, from all the petty materialistic and commonplace and earthly ideals of his rationalistic friends.

Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame.

Live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.