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The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Related topics: Wisdom
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
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All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
I 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 Carver
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
I 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 Emerson
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Our 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 Einstein
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
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
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
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
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