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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.
The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.
I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.