Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator’s work.
When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Law is born from despair of human nature.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
Though pleas’d to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
The 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.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
