Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substit

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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The attraction of variety, contrast, is always invigorating. Nature does not for long allow a sameness of beauty to prevail. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. – Helen Keller

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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. – Alex Grey

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens

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I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. – Hal Borland

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Every day Im thinking about change. – Miuccia Prada

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