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Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. — David Lynch
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. — Mark Twain
I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown.… — Ernest Shackleton
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in… — Thomas Malthus
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution… — James Otis
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures… — Joseph Butler
This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us. — Heinrich Bullinger
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves,… — Wayne Dyer
True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves....When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important… — Shakti Gawain
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with… — Edmund Burke
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. — James Earl Jones
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to… — C.S. Lewis
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being… — Dalai Lama
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to… — Cesar Chavez
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he… — Edward Everett
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral… — Eric Hoffer
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits,… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but… — Pope Dionysius
Laziness is built deep into our nature. — Daniel Kahneman
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to… — Albert Ellis
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the… — Socrates
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our… — Radhanath Swami
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means… — Thomas Jefferson

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