#nature

Custom is second nature. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#nature #second

What type of flavor do you think I prefer?" She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who wants the mystery inside the flower bud." I can still appreciate the different nuances of the stronger flavors." He studied the orchid in the center of the table. "With the very delicate, you sculpt something down to such a whisper of form, there's nothing else it can be. It's in strength you find surprises, variation. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#marguerite #tyler #nature

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fact #naturalism #reliable #true #nature

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#cure #cured #devour #devoured #human

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. ↗

— John James Audubon

#becoming #desirous #fervently #grew #i

Hidden nature is secret God. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#hidden #nature #secret

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#despise #else #like #nature #welcome

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bees #cannot #good #which

It is very difficult to undersatnd man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its limits. So if we are able to understand 25% of what is being said, even that should be deemed, as good communication skills are very good. Beyond this one should not even aspire for. ↗

— Aacharya Mahapragya

#communication #explanation #goal-setting #human-being #life