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“There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.”

Men Heart Soul Whole Certain Hours Circumstances Seasons Harmony Climate Impression

Book:Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.”

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.”

Has Beens Lasts Return Circumstances Harmony Tunes Over You Compelled Compulsion Disturbed

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Stills Self Lasts Order Universe Winning Moral Our Lives Stage Circumstances Harmony Breaths Obstacles Developing Constraints Peace Of Heart

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe