When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John LennonDreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John UpdikeThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenThe family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George SantayanaMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiA painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da VinciAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinWe have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.
Mahatma GandhiNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoStupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave FlaubertOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareI believe that sex is one of the most beautiful natural wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve MartinMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonA politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. HumphreyWhat is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error, let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
VoltaireJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinWhen I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinSex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn MonroeNature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. PeterIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
AristotleI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis StevensonArt not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
AristotleA man's kiss is his signature.
Mae WestHuman nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane AustenThe ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William ShatnerBehold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil GibranThey are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane AustenLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis BaconA kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid BergmanWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiEarth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John LubbockNature can be modified by nurture, even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.
Sai BabaWe need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence, see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother TeresaHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNow I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt WhitmanAn inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington IrvingLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus AureliusI say that habit is but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
AristotleSo it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
AristotleIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonTo deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body, it is starvation of the soul the dweller in the body.
Mahatma GandhiVirtue is the strong stem of man's nature and music is the blossoming of virtue.
ConfuciusWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenForests, lakes and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett MardenNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireTruth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiIt is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
BuddhaNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere and we are all apt to expect too much, but then if one scheme of happiness fails human nature turns to another, if the first calculation is wrong we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere...
Jane AustenMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LewisRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John LubbockGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph AddisonOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
ConfuciusAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleNature does nothing uselessly.
AristotleAs in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place so virtue in ambition is violent in authority settled and calm.
Francis BaconBut Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect and Nature ever seeks an end.
AristotleThe beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleThe pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning it far surpasseth all other in nature
Francis BaconNature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo GalileiAll men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
PlatoMarried love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
AeschylusThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopeGravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave BarryYou may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel OsteenMother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group which includes hamburgers fish sticks and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.
Dave BarryTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature, and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconNature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond and the lover makes the woman.
Victor HugoA perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Joseph AddisonBy reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonCertainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs.
Francis BaconI have no hostility to nature but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMr. Collins was not a sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.
Jane AustenObserve constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusAnd although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan WattsOur founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul RyanHuman values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance he will experience his divine nature.
Sai BabaThe style of God venerated in the church, mosque or synagogue, seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan WattsNature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.
George Washington CarverI have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MichelangeloMan today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.
Sai BabaIn the Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainWhat we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisIt is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
AristotleBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreTo be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things, this is the nature of righteousness
ConfuciusWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyDeath like birth is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusNature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopePlace where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed, one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self. He returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.
ConfuciusMy nature just changes.
Jimi HendrixThe world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
William BlakeAll the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John AdamsWhen God is reflected as Nature the reflection becomes Maya.
Sai BabaMen may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph AddisonIt is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
AristotleThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusA strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas JeffersonThe best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne FrankAfter you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt WhitmanOur body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo TolstoyThe nature of the food determines the nature of one' s thoughts feelings and actions.
Sai BabaCamping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Dave Barry