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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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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
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin with the end in mind.
- 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
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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
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
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
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
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
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
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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