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1 " It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead 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. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. "
― Viktor E. Frankl , Man's Search for Meaning
2 " [T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary. "
― Iain Pears , The Dream of Scipio
3 " And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. " The Dry Salvages "
4 " Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
5 " ...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. "
― Idries Shah , Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
6 " Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners. "
― Richard Rohr , Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
7 " We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—hourly and daily. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual. "
― Viktor E. Frankl
8 " Right thinking plus right action equals right results." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio "
