“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
— Dan Brown“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”
— Kurt Vonnegut“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
— William Shakespeare“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
— John Muir“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
— George Carlin“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
— Amit Ray“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
— Chad Sugg“Rest 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 Lubbock“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”
— Steve Maraboli“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
— Fredrik Backman“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
— Roy T. Bennett“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honoré de Balzac“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
— Jess C Scott“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
— Ruskin Bond“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
— C. JoyBell C.“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
— Joseph Campbell“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
— Suzy Kassem“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
— C.S. Lewis“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”
— Siddhārtha Gautama“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
— George Carlin“I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.”
— Steve Martin“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.”
— Marcia Carrington“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”
— Bill Bryson“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.”
— Ernest Becker“A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.”
— Carroll Bryant“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”
— Lin Yutang“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.”
— Jonas Eriksson“Hold fast to the mountain, take root in a broken-up bluff, grow stronger after tribulations, and withstand the buffering wind from all directions.”
— Zheng Xie“When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough.”
— Hediger“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”
— Alberto Caeiro“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”
— Rousseau Jean - Jacques“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.”
— Anne Frank“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”
— Alberto Caeiro“Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.”
— Alberto Caeiro“There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?”
— Joe L. Wheeler“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
— Tagore Rabindranath“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”
— Alberto Caeiro“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
— Tamanend“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
— E.A. Bucchianeri“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. (Why step out of nature ?)”
— Erik Pevernagie“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
— Queen Elizabeth I“Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”
— Amit Ray“Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Nature's quiet power is a reminder that true strength is often silent.”
— Aloo Denish Obiero“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”
— Alan Sheinwald“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
— Vincent Willem van Gogh