Natural Quotes

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Did you know hemp is a natural fiber

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.