#natur

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #golden #golden-rule #imperfect #imperfection

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go? ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#stupidity #art

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#nature

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather.. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#beauty #hey-nostradamus #high #life #nature

Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature; they make us to smile. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#nature

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#poetry #solitude #love

Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#mans-nature #change

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#peasants #nature

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #nature-of-man #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #change

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#weather #nature