To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible. — Erykah Badu
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. — Christian Dior
Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself. — Meher Baba
Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so. — Twiggy
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid. — Yulia Tymoshenko
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state. — Ramana Maharshi
Authenticity naturally gets you away from competition. — Naval Ravikant
I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins. — Freddie Mercury
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. — Anna Pavlova
The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are. — Bobbi Brown
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. — Jewel
Short Being Natural Quotes
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. — Gretel Ehrlich
Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it. — Adam Lambert
Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them. — Paramahansa Yogananda
First feelings are always the most natural. — Louis XIV
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. — Richard Rohr
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
Being Natural Image Quotes
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. — Marquis De Sade
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. — Grace Kelly
Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior. — Miyamoto Musashi
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. — Louis D. Brandeis
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
I Love Being Natural Quotes
I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. — Kevin Gates
I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries. — Grace Kelly
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. — Linda Hogan
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. — Robert M. Sapolsky
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. — Norman MacCaig
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end. — Lex Fridman
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! — Yehudi Menuhin
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. — George Bird Evans
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 — Anne Rice
Being Natural Beauty Quotes
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite — Rick Riordan
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. — Walt Whitman
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. — Anthony of Padua
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. — Albert Einstein
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price. — Ansel Adams
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers. — Therese of Lisieux
Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child. — Isadora Duncan
Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end. — Albrecht Durer
Being Natural Woman Quotes
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. — Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. — Gloria Steinem
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. — Confucius
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman. — Anwar Fazal
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. — Alice Stone Blackwell
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! — Alexander Herzen
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. — Dorothy Dunnett
Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life. — Janet Schwegel
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. — Mahatma Gandhi
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature. — Petronius
Being Simple And Natural Quotes
The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart — Viktor Schauberger
People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done. — Mike Tomlin
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
The purpose of being is really making the soul ascend, to expand consciousness. That’s our true purpose. And if we follow that path then there is no tension. You just live like a kid, open. It’s all simple. It’s beautiful and the energy is clean. We are children of mother nature. — Wim Hof
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body. — Ameen Rihani
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. — Anne Frank
Natural Products Quotes
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. — Louie Giglio
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system — Bill Mollison
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits. — Edward De Bono
Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.
Our reliance upon knowledge and scientific thinking to achieve total development is the only way to bring our nation ahead to the stage of non-oil production, a lesson learnt from nations with little or no natural resources. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. — Bhagavad Gita
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle — Ellen MacArthur
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic. — Euell Gibbons
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. — Nikola Tesla
Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas. — Gad Saad
Stay Natural Quotes
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. — Yayoi Kusama
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. — Mark Twain
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. — Paul Coffey
Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. — John Muir
Perfectly Natural Quotes
The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature. — Ellen G. White
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine. — Beatrix Potter
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. — Shunryu Suzuki
I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands. — Howard Hughes
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural. — Alexander Graham Bell
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. — Karl Lagerfeld
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. — Kenneth Waltz
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. — Annie Dillard
Unnatural Quotes
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — Sir John Harvey
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones
The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all. — Sigmund Freud
Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way. — CM Punk
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Alfred Kinsey
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. — Susan Sontag
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken. — Anna Julia Cooper
No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do? — Richelle Mead
If we are to make even remotely rational decisions about energy going forward, the reality of today’s unnatural level of nourishment and its dependence on fossil fuels need to be widely understood. — Alex Epstein
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane. — John B. Watson
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty. — Marie Curie
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective. — Charles R. Swindoll
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings. — Joanna Macy
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness. — Arthur W. Pink
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life — Haile Selassie
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. — Albert Einstein
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. — Napoleon Hill
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things. — Empedocles
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. — Oliver Goldsmith
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. — Marie Antoinette
Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being. — St. Catherine of Siena
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