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Quotes About Life

The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
~ Laozi
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
~ William Wordsworth
There is no place in nature for extinction.
~ Lucretius
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
~ Philip José Farmer
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.
~ Gene Watson
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
~ Emily Dickinson
Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
~ Graeme Base
Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.
~ Chris d'Lacey, Icefire
I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.
~ Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.
~ Phyllis McGinley
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
~ William Wordsworth
Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.
~ Nora Roberts
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
~ Allan Bloom
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
~ George Hodges (theologian)
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
~ George Santayana
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
~ Gloria Steinem
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
~ Zadie Smith
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.
~ Shinjo Ito