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Quote by D.H. Lawrence
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. – D.H. Lawrence

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Self
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. – D.H. Lawrence

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Housework
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. – D.H. Lawrence

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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt

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When it seems that something can’t be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell. – Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus

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