I’m a genetic optimist.
Jeff BezosI’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
Anthony BourdainHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauIf you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine HepburnMan never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander PopeOccurrences 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 EinsteinTears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea BallouHave you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. MenckenI don’t get bored.
Haruki MurakamiA wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
E. E. CummingsThe best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard ShawModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola TeslaI think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.
Alice WalkerI’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady GagaThe sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
DiogenesAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert CamusIf future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauWe love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich NietzscheLiving big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
Henry FordThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George CarlinFor in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin LutherA false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin FranklinIn the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne DyerIs everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.
Kevin HartAnxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles SpurgeonThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeKeep 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 MuirIt is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
AuroraI don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
Anthony HopkinsSelf-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
David GogginsHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William JamesHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirSlave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
Alexander PopeTogether with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope FrancisThought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.
Nipsey HussleThere are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.
Jerry SeinfeldFrom the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
Robert Baden-PowellVirtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich NietzscheNo traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John MuirThe human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
Christopher HitchensAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da VinciLet not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus AureliusThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirWhen I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van GoghThe mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirLittle minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
RihannaTrue Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.
Robert Baden-PowellThe thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert HooverThe way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghThe moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleFun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard Branson