Best Natural State Quotations
109 Natural State quotes by 92 unique authors
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Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and…
— Frederick Lenz
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We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
— James Anthony Froude
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I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
— Michael J. Fox
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that…
— Jessica Lange
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
— John Ralston Saul
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or…
— Baruch Spinoza
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will…
— Marianne Williamson
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It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
— Annie Dillard
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Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
— Scott Westerfeld
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War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else.…
— Steven Erikson
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It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written…
— Ira Glass
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Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to…
— Nick Hornby
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You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you…
— Charles de Lint
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Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible,…
— Lauren Oliver
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in…
— Benjamin Rush
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of…
— Sharon Salzberg
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my…
— David Levithan
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
— Rachel Caine
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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
— Steve Martin
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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