It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha Mind Enlightenment Joy Wisdom Happiness Health Virtue
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Saint Augustine Humanity
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. Rudyard Kipling Self-discovery
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras Freedom Action
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. Virgil
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero Education Virtue
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. Paracelsus Nature
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy Happiness
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Ludwig van Beethoven
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality. Emanuel Swedenborg
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. John Milton Man Stupidity
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. Herman Melville
