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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
Related topics: Nature
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- John Muir
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
The clearest way to show what the rule of law
means to us in everyday life
is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
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