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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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey 
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
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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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- 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
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It appears to be a law that you cannot have
a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
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
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 hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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