All things Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

— Michel de Montaigne

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the…

— Muriel Rukeyser

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

— Jim Clemmer

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment;…

— Laurence Sterne

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

— Jean Vanier

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

— Jean Vanier

“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we become conscious…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.…

— Seneca the Younger

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in…

— Eric Hoffer

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of…

— Henry Miller

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

— Isaac Newton