#nature

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beauty #else #everything #isolated #leads

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

#causes #chance #compulsions #desire #habit

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. ↗

— Aristotle

#another #better #may #sure #than

Nature does nothing in vain. ↗

— Aristotle

#nature #nothing #vain

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#fed up #get #go #i #i love

Envy is human nature. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#human #human nature #nature

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#survival #beauty

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#delight #else #loss #nature #nothing