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
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey 
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- 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
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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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
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
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
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
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
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
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
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
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
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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