“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“I think the knowledge came to him at last — only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about global warming; it came out in 1989 and soon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
“I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody -- you're all so bored. You've 'ad nature explained to you and you're bored… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
“I turned faceup on the slab of stone, gazed at the sky, and thought about all the man-made satellites spinning around the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I twirled it around in front of my eyes, going momentarily cross-eyed as I looked for any sign of roots. Of course… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated… — John Green Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with… — nwaocha ogechukwu Copy Share Image
Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
“They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He fell to the seat, she by his side. There no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“There will always be another war, Gillia.” He allowed his cynicism to seep through. “Do you know why? Because there will always… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“That narrows down the search quite a bit,” Daniel commented. “But what if you still don’t find her?” “Then I’m still not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is a natural part of life. If you fear death then you will die young but if you embrace death and… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“You told me once of t he plants that lie dormant through the drought; that wait, half dead, deep in the earth.… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“ Machik thus maintains that what is conventionally referred to as a "god" is in fact the positive nature of reflexive awareness… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Maybe our bucket lists should be more about faithfulness than awesomeness. Maybe our bucket lists should be more about serving others than… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
