“He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“15. Nature and her Lesson. Nature offers us nectar and ambrosia every day, and everywhere we go the rose and lily await… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return… Those who don't return become a part of the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything,… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth;… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents,… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in… — Hilary Scharper Copy Share Image
Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, when I say… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It… — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and natural craving in the human heart that can be satisfied nowhere except in God. Our being in… — Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“God loves my people and me. God also loves those whom I consider my enemies. Now what do I do? The spirit… — Eric H.F. Law Copy Share Image
“Crossing the Swamp" Here is the endless wet thick cosmos, the center of everything—the nugget of dense sap, branching vines, the dark… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“...it obeys none of the natural laws of hereditary and environmental change, pays no attention to the survival of the fittest, positively… — Charles G. Finney Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image