Quotes of: Natural-ability Keyword

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

God's Son and God's World

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Half Broke Horses

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

Humility and How to Get It

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

The Art of War

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

The Broken Coast

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on...

Bioenergetics

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...

A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

Buddhist Scriptures

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

The Book of Tea

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

The Birth of Tragedy

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Being and Time

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

City of Fallen Angels

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you.

City of Ashes

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

Al Michaels