#natur

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#human-nature #monsters #warnings #nature

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. ↗

— Björk

#bjork #loneliness #nature #orgy #nature

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #stupidity #nature

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#man #stupidity #nature

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nature

Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#naturalist #wajah #nature

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#perversion #security #suffering #nature

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#god-s-will #nature

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#mind #nature

...You're not suited for this Merripen. You can't hold your liquor worth a damn. And unlike people such as me, who become quite amicable when they drink, you turn into a vile-tempered troll." Leo paused considering how best to provoke him. "Liquor brings out one's true inner nature, they say. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#merripen #nature