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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
Related topics: Nature
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- 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
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When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- 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
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
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
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- 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
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
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
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- 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
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- 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
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
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
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- 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
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
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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