#natures

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#else #like #lot #mix #natures

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. ↗

— Felix Adler

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

#desire #equalize #getting #lower #more

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflict #drama #experience #means #natures

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. ↗

— Andre Gide

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