Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

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

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.