there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a for his actions.
To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person.
Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.
Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.
I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
