Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)

— Albina Fabiani

Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast. If you’d live unconquered, Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred, And every child a hero.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

— H.W. Brands

Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.

— Belsebuub

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions double valor at the hour of need; ``and to the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so.

— Walter Scott

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

— Criss Jami

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.

— Bryant McGill

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

— Alastair Pilkington

Happiness is a state of activity.

— Aristotle

Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creature" reality governed from within by our humanity; it is not something that descends overwhelmingly upon us from outside. That is, it is not only something that happens to us; we ourselves are intensely active participants in our own happiness. Beatitude - Thomas is saying - cannot possibly be conceived as a merely objective condition of sheer existence. It is not a mere quality, not pure passivity, not simply a feeling. It is something that takes place in the alert core of the mind... Happiness is an act and an activity of the soul.

— Josef Pieper