#ten

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#i #jim #multiple #personalities #phillips

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#money #the-winter-of-our-discontent #change

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate. ↗

— Breanna Sampson

#money #money

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. ↗

— Anthony Robbins

#motivational #perseverance #motivational

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ↗

— Steve Chandler

#doing #fear #motivation #persistence #motivational

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#mankind #naturalism #nature

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#centre #contentment #nature #peace #peace-of-mind

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding, or swaying, being rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spread. You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: this hum is the silence. Nature does utter a peep - just this one. The birds and insects, the meadows and swamps and rivers and stones and mountains and clouds: they all do it; they all don't do it. There is a vibrancy to the silence, a suppression, as if someone were gagging the world. But you wait, you give your life's length to listening, and nothing happens. The ice rolls up, the ice rolls back, and still that single note obtains. The tension, or lack of it, is intolerable. The silence is not actually suppression: instead, it is all there is. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#listening #nature #life

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hidden #nature #often #overcome #seldom