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Life Quotes by John Burroughs
- I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books…
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to…
- If you think you can do it, you can.
- To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
- Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
- Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
- The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the…
- [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it…
- A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and…
- We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
- Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
- I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
- It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter…
- There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do;…
- Without death and decay, how could life go on?
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....
- To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...…
- The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power…
- Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
- One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the…
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at…
- The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle