Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.
Our actions determine our dispositions.
As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. . . . That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.