Tennessee Claflin Quotes

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

Every person's every action has an effect.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.