#nat

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ↗

— George Santayana

#done #duty #his #man #natural

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— George Santayana

#diseases #him #instincts #less #man

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#concern #country #government #helm #his

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#bombing #country #determined #experience #hearts

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#bore #certain #certainly #contain #could

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. ↗

— George Saunders

#experience #haven #lack #read #voice

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #god #had #i #i think