‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.