#natur

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems. ↗

— Marc Cherry

#episodic #gems #might #nature #new

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grow #solitary #strong #trees

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#muse #nature #poet

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#comedies #easiest #easiest thing #god #hanging

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ↗

— Albert Camus

#autumn #every #flower #leaf #second

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. ↗

— Albert Camus

#between #correct #everything #half-way #history

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #instinct #law #nature #obey