Best human-nature & change Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

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Book:Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

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Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“False hope is worse than despair.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.”

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Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all”

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Book:Separate Reality

Source: Separate Reality

“The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“With our thoughts we make the world.”

Source: Zen Dogs

“Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.”

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Book:The World of Silence

Source: The World of Silence

“Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.”

Source: The Five Thousand Year Leap

“Human-nature will not change.”

Humans Change Human Nature

Book:Lincoln on Lincoln

Source: Lincoln on Lincoln

“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.”

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