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Historic Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. – Oscar Wilde

Fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. – Paulo Coelho

History can be written in a simple little formula: Challenge, Response. – Arnold Toynbee

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. – Mark Twain

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.  – Thomas Jefferson 

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. – Arnold Toynbee

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. – Peter Ustinov

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. – Gandhi

Think Quotes Edited to Word

A human being…experiences himself, his thoughts words as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion…Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. – Albert Einstein

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his  thoughts words, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – Napoleon Hill

A man is what he thinks words about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All intelligent thoughts words have already been thought. What is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking wording because he knows. – Frank Lloyd Wright

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought word will not make a pathway in the mind… To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the thoughts words we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry David Thoreau

Change your  thoughts words and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Dance first. Think Word later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett

Die in your thoughts words every morning and you will no longer fear death. – Hagakure

Don’t think. Look. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think word. – Albert Einstein

Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing themselves their words.. – Leo Tolstoy

Great men are they who see that thoughts words are stronger than any material force, that thoughts words rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can elect to change all thoughts words that hurt and see peace instead. – Hugh Prather

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts words, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. – Byron Katie

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking wording. Then problems fix themselves. – Louise Hay

I don’t know what I think word until I write it down. – Joan Didion

If you think word you can, or if you think word you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts words, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking wording. – Buckminster Fuller

In the beginning is the word. – Word masters

It you think word you’re free, there’s no escape possible. – Baba Ram Dass

Make the effort to  think word, then live your thoughts words. – André Comte-Sponville

Nurture your mind with great thoughts words, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable unwordable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks words it can do. – Deepak Chopra

Put your thoughts words to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking wording. – Rumi

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking wording you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins

Sincere thinking wording and plain speaking will get any message across to the people. – Claude Bristol

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts words. – John Locke

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts words. – Marcus Aurelius

The mind is everything. What you think word, you become. – Socrates

The most courageous act is still to think word for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

The primary cause for unhappiness is never the situation, but thoughts words about it. Beware of the thoughts words you’re thinking. – Eckhart Tolle

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking wording that created them. – Albert Einstein

There’s no one to beat you, no one to defeat you, except the thoughts words of yourself feeling bad. – Bob Dylan

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking wording makes it so. – Shakespeare

To find yourself, think word for yourself. – Socrates

Watch your thoughts words, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

We are shaped by our thoughts words. We become what we think word. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha

We become what we think word about all day long. The question is, what do you think word about? – Wayne Dyer

What makes us human, I think, is… our sophisticated spoken language. – Jane Goodall

What you think word of yourself is much more important than what others think word of you. – Seneca

When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum: and the question he gave me to consider was this: Where are you between two thoughts words? – Joseph Campbell

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts words break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. – Patanjali

With your thoughts words you fashion your environment…the only climate you will ever live in. – Steven Covey

Writing is refined thinking wording. – Stephen King

You are not what you think. What you think word, you are. – Brian Tracy

You become what you think word about most of the time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn a new way to think word before you can master a new way to be. – Marianne Williamson

Think Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A human being…experiences his thoughts as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion…Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. – Albert Einstein

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – Napoleon Hill

A man is what he thinks about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought. What is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because he knows. – Frank Lloyd Wright

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind… To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry David Thoreau

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. – Alejandra Jodorowski

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Loa Tzu

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett

Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. – Hagakure

Don’t think. Look. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein

Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing themselves. – Leo Tolstoy

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. – Proverb

Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half the time you think you’re thinking you’re actually listening. – Terence McKenna

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

I am a firm believer in negative thinking when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are, but he doesn’t think continuously about the bunker, where he doesn’t want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he dwells upon the green. – Maxwell Maltz

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt and see peace instead. – Hugh Prather

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. – Byron Katie

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves. – Louise Hay

I don’t know what I think until I write it down. – Joan Didion

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. – Albert Einstein

If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever. – Maxwell Maltz

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

It you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. – Baba Ram Dass

It’s simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. – Sam Levenson

Learning without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without learning is perilous. – Confucius

Make the effort to think, then live your thoughts. – André Comte-Sponville

Mirrors would do well to think before they cast their reflections back at us. – Jean Cocteau

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. – Winston Churchill

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. – Henry David Thoreau

Not so much to see what no-one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. – Deepak Chopra

Only shallow people think marketing is unimportant. – Oscar Wilde

Our actions should be based on the ever-present awareness that human beings in their thinking… are not free but are just as casually bound as the stars in their motion. – Albert Einstein

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. – Wayne Dyer

People with humility don’t think less of themselves. They just think of themselves less. – Ken Blanchard

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass. – Ron Jaworski

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. – Rumi

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

Seagulls follow the trawler because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. – Eric Cantona

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins

Sincere thinking and plain speaking will get any message across to the people. – Claude Bristol

Sooner or later everyone will invent a story that they think is their life. – Max Frisch

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

The mind is everything; what you think you become. – Socrates

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

The primary cause for unhappiness is never the situation, but thoughts about it. Beware of the thoughts you’re thinking. – Eckhart Tolle

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein

The soul never thinks without a picture – Aristotle

The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say, or think, or do. Only what you do. –  Marcus Aurelius

The trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha

There’s no one to beat you, no one to defeat you, except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad. – Bob Dylan

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer

Think of the words as science, not as art. – Leonard Cohen

Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge. – Carl Jung

To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha

We become what we think about all day long. The question is, what do you think about? – Wayne Dyer

What do you think would happen to you if you systematically copied the body language of a schizophrenic? – Morris Berman

What makes us human, I think, is… our sophisticated spoken language. – Jane Goodall

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. ­ – Seneca

When everyone thinks the same, little is thought. – Polo Hofer

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. – Paul Simon

When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum: and the question he gave me to consider was this: Where are you between two thoughts? – Joseph Campbell

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. – Patanjali

With your thoughts you fashion your environment…the only climate you will ever live in. – Steven Covey

Writing is refined thinking. – Stephen King

You are not what you think. What you think, you are. – Brian Tracy

You become what you think about most of the time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way, you prepare for its arrival? Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. – Marianne Williamson

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. – Marianne Williamson

Everybody Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Bad luck is when it rains soup, everybody is equipped with spoons and you’re the only one with a fork. – Polo Hofer

Everybody ends up somewhere in life, and a few people end up somewhere on purpose. Those are the ones with vision. – Andy Stanley

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. – Marshall McLuhan

Everybody is given an amount of calories to burn up. You either burn them up by living or by creating. You can’t burn the same calories both ways. – Arthur Koestler

Everybody has been given an endowment that he must strive to develop in the service of mankind. This cannot be brought to completion through the threat of a God who will punish man for sin, but only by challenging the best in human nature. – Albert Einstein

Everybody is born a genius, but the process of growing up de-geniuses you. – Buckminster Fuller

Everybody is gifted. Yet most people never open their package. – Mike Dooley

Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo. – Scott Adams

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. – Orson Scott Card

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Fréderic Bastiat

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. – Marshall McLuhan

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn’t necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet, but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else’s affairs. – Marshall McLuhan

Losing love is like a window to your heart. Everybody sees you blown apart. Everybody sees the wind blow. – Paul Simon

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

Not so much to see what no-one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Imagine Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment. – Maxwell Maltz

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others. – Cher

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. – Oscar Wilde

Art is the sex of imagination. – George Jean Nathan

At our core is this image of the absolutely perfect thing. That’s your signpost and your guide. You never get there, of course, but without it, you don’t go anywhere. – Cormack McCarthy

Do not say to yourself, “I am going to act this way tomorrow.” Just say to yourself, “I am going to imagine myself acting this way now, for 30 minutes, today.” – Maxwell Maltz 

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. – Marcel Duchamp

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination. – Astrid Lindgren

Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. – Stephen Hawking

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation. – Albert Einstein     

I see no dividing line between imagination and reality. – Federico Fellini

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to and possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. – Anaïs Nin

If god made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment. – Voltaire

If it captures your imagination, it will captivate others. – Howard Schultz

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the world. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagine being sound asleep when you are suddenly awakened by the fire alarm. Startled, you jump out of bed, run to the closet, and take out a baseball bat. You smash the alarm into smithereens until it stops ringing. But then, instead of looking for the fire, you put the bat back in the closet, crawl back to bed, and go to sleep. – Sri Swami Satchidananda

Imagine that you’re dreaming. – Robert Graves

Can man invent something that is not in his image? – Paul Descargues

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. – Albert Einstein

Men fall deepest in love with women who give them back their own image. – Marshall McLuhan

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. – Plato

Only the birds are able to throw off their shadow. The shadow always stays behind on Earth. Our imagination flies. We are its shadow on the Earth. – Vladimir Nabokov

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. – Richard Feynman

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. – Maxwell Maltz

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor which protects them against shattering events. – Maxwell Maltz

Suppose someone were to say Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is but ugly instead of beautiful. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The human race is governed by its imagination. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior. – Maxwell Maltz

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

There are many ways to be free. One way is to transcend reality by imagination. – Anaïs Nin

There is nothing in the whole universe that persists. Everything flows and is formed as a fleeting image. – Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves… the greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. – N. Scott Momaday

We can live out of our imagination instead of our memory. –  Stephen Covey

We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. – Edmond Jabe

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

You will never outgrow your self-image. – Maxwell Maltz

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience, and it can’t tell real failure from imagined failure. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true. – Maxwell Maltz

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Able Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. – Warren Buffet

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. – Rumi

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

Accountability breeds responsibility. – Stephen R. Covey

All progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are indistinguishable. – David Augsberger

Everyday life is bearable only through miracles. – Max Frisch

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. – Carl Sagan

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do. – Carl Jung

Human thought is dependable and natural law is universal. – Albert Einstein

I am against abortion. Killing a human being before s/he is born is unforgivable. It is a proof of impatience. – Georges Bernard Shaw

I believe that there are more urgent and honorable occupations than that incomparable waste of time we call suffering. – Colette

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa

If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. – Rainer Maria Rilke

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. – Helen Gurley Brown

Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. – David Burns

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty. It stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things. – Albert Einstein

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

Responsibility is to keep the ability to respond. – Gustav Mahler

Sometimes the only available transportation is a leap of faith. – Margaret Shepard

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King

The double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. – James 

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … the fact it is comprehensible is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. – John Steinbeck

The future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power. – Albert Einstein

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. – Peter Ustinov

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who is unable to people his solitude is also unable to be alone in a busy crowd. – Charles Baudelaire

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to assure the unhindered development of the individual. – Albert Einstein

The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. – Margaret Atwood

The reasonable ones lasted, the passionate ones lived. – Chamfort

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. – Flannery O’Connor

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. – Stevie Wonder

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. – Martin Luther King Jr

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Longfellow

Natural Quotes Worth Reading Twice

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Choose only one master, nature. – Rembrandt

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

Conscience is the voice of nature. – Beat Schindler

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett

Human thought is dependable and natural law is universal… It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive and try to humbly comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature. – Albert Einstein

I find it surprising that society thinks of specialization as logical, necessary, desirable, if not inevitable… If Nature had wanted man to be a specialist, I am sure she would have grown him with one eye and a microscope on it. – Buckminster Fuller

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in. – George Washington Carver

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees. – Henry David Thoreau.

If we win against nature, we lose. – David Attenborough

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Men’s natures are alike. It is their habits that separates them. – Confucius

My profession is to always find god in nature. – Henri David Thoreau

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. It is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. – Richard Feynman

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. It also includes the inner pictures of the soul. – Edvard Munch

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. – Terence McKenna

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. – Terence McKenna

Nature never deceives us. It is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. – Ralph Charell

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare

Only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them. Nature recognizes no catastrophes. – Max Frisch

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps, first by Hannibal, and more recently by the Cimbri. But at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles, promontories are thrown open to the sea, and the face of nature is being everywhere reduced to a level. – Gaius Plinius the Elder

Natural laws that cannot be broken. It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. – Stephen Covey

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature herself. – Leonardo da Vinci

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. Except for children, who don’t know enough not to ask the important questions, few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is. – Carl Sagan

We need the tonic of wilderness. We can never have enough of nature. – Henri David Thoreau

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird. – Tara Brach

You can fall in love with the natural world in the same way you fall in love with a person. There’s that same sense of helplessness, of lacking control over how much of your life you want to devote to it. – Andrea Barrett

You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you. – Isadora Duncan