#nature

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#men

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#philosophy #art

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#nature

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather.. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#beauty #hey-nostradamus #high #life #nature

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#peasants #nature

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #nature-of-man #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #change

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#weather #nature

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#wild-horse #nature

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#loss #nature

My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#nature