Best Own Nature Sayings
157 Own Nature quotes by 115 unique authors
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When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman…
— Jim Caviezel
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A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
— Jean Giraudoux
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To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the…
— Sengcan
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Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away,…
— Sonia Choquette
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many…
— Mary Oliver
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it…
— Andreas Libavius
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"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel…
— Marcus Aurelius
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From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in…
— Carl Jung
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There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of…
— Justin Martyr
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
— Laozi
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Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
— C.S. Lewis
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The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
— Albert Camus
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It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic…
— Anuj
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We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of…
— Marilynne Robinson
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To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
— Emile M. Cioran
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And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
— George Eliot
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