“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.” IfsKnowsChildrenReasonFactsNaturalWonderToo MuchHigherAdultsLogicBraveryRateCancerCuresCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningCynicalFearfulOntologyResigned Author:Lance Armstrong
“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.” IfsWorldHumansWellsHeartRealWholeSeemsChristianSpiritualDesireNaturalChallengesEmotionExpressionHigherEternityInstinctDepthEndureChristmasAll TimeEndeavorSpheresAccentsNew LifeAdorationBlessednessBethlehemSpiritual Nature Author:James Gibbons
“There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.” HumansPersonsSpiritualFormEnergyForceProcessNaturalPowerfulPrinciplesHuman NatureCreationHigherCreatorOnenessSpiritual LifeEnergizing Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.” MenWellsCountryMatterNaturalOughtHigherStraightforwardPensionParishLabourers Author:John Ruskin
“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.” MenSelfNaturalForgetHigherLosingCommitGuidanceAdvancingForget Him Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.” Has BeensCharacterFeelingsLawJoyLyingSpeakNaturalSeaHigherSorrowEternalTraitsTreacherousHigher PowerDeceitful Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.” FactsNaturalLevelsOpinionHigherMathematicsCharacteristicsPeculiarNatural Science Book:The Neumann Compendium Source: The Neumann Compendium
“Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.” IfsMenFirstsEnoughEvilNaturalCompanyHigherElementsProductionsOilBuyingThrowingQuantitySpeculationTanksStorageKnocked DownFluctuationSpeculatorsNatural ElementsBuying In Author:Ida Tarbell