#ife

Have a religion but don't let religion have you! ↗

— Janina Lea Dela Peña

#life-philosophy #reality #religion-meaning #religion-philosophy #religion

The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high prairies. Its thin, grey leaves made it look as though it were on the verge of dying, thereby fooling the elements and the bad weather into thinking that they didn't have to bother with something so spindly and bent, something so obviously on its last legs. ↗

— Thomas King

#native-american #nature #resilience #strength #survival

Darkness sometimes prove's to be the best guide, With moon light falling thy, The hushing sound -when wind hits the Trees, And the dense Fog coming out .....!! That's the feeling named '' The Trance of Nature ↗

— Aditya Chandel

#trance #nature

Jika alam dirasa selalu tidak bisa bersahabat, mengapa tidak kita dulu saja yang memulai persahabatan dengan alam. ↗

— Orizya Sativa

#nature #nature

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces." Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958) ↗

— Rachel Carson

#humanity #life #mankind #nature #survival

Pour ce qu’il avait pu en observer l’existence des hommes s’organisait autour du travail, qui occupait la plus grande partie de la vie, et s’accomplissait dans des organisations de dimension variable. A l’issue des années de travail s’ouvrait une période plus brève, marquée par le développement de différentes pathologies. Certains êtres humains, pendant la période la plus active de leur vie, tentaient en outre de s’associer dans des micro-regroupements, qualifies de familles, ayant pour but la reproduction de l’espèce ; mais ces tentatives, le plus souvent, tournaient court, pour des raisons liées a la <>. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#jobs #life #romance #nature

Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part. ↗

— Robert Christian

#humanistic #philosophy-of-life #nature

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#book-of-the-fallen #deadhouse-gates #laws-of-nature #life #malazan

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all. ↗

— Arthur Byron Cover

#human-nature #humanity #lucifer #satan #nature

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heaven #inclusion #nature #religion #swedenborg