In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.” — Ashley Madau Copy Share Image
“Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile — William Cowper Copy Share Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.” — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
“With this contradictory parentage of mine: solid English earth and French water goddess, one could expect anything from me. An enchantress or… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I must say that the charm of the Arctic, its infinite diversity, its aloofness from the rest of the world, made it… — Louise Arner Boyd Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
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