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I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
Related topics: Nature
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- John Muir
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- John Muir
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never quit.
- Anonymous
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
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