The warrior energy of men now has to be used paradoxically to destroy the warrior psyche and the politics of warfare. It will require more courage and aggression than we’ve ever seen on the battlefield.
—Sam Keen
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
—G. K. Chesterton
Love is energy of life.
—Robert Browning
In the beginning there was my mother. A shape. A shape and a force, standing in the light. You could see her energy; it was visible in the air. Against any background she stood out.
—Marilyn Krysl
When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy — which could happen to any one of us — we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.
—14th Dalai Lama
If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy?
—George Carlin
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
—Albert Einstein
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
—Annie Dillard
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
—Margaret Mead
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
—Hosea Ballou
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
—Emma Goldman
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
—Benjamin Franklin