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Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Dalai Lama 1935

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Edward O. Wilson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Jesse Lee Bennett

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Francois Rodin

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Soren Kierkegaard

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Tenzin Gyatso

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will

Anthony Robbins

Two human loves make one divine.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences

John Stuart Mill

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form

Simone de Beauvoir

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures

Francis Bacon

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy

Lyndon Baines Johnson

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also

Fred Woodworth

...don't think of yourself as a jazz musician. Think of yourself as a human being who plays music.

Charlie Haden

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Ingersoll

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature

Charles Dickens

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