Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? Daisaku Ikeda
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. Cass Sunstein
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. Dorothy Thompson
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. David Hockney
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. Bodhidharma
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Lord Acton
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. Marian Anderson
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. Paul Getty
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. William Henry Harrison
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. Dennis Prager
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Yoko Ono
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. Wallace Stevens
God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there. Pat Robertson
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. Xun Zi
The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers. Simon Mainwaring
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. James Whistler
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Muhammad Iqbal
It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves. Bjork