Naturalness Argument Quotes & Sayings

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them. — Oswald Chambers

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night. — Edmund Wilson

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. "They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday," Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably. It was like being a Prisoner in a Maximum-Security Prison, wanting to know what a Visitor's hand felt like (see Living in Darkness, Cowell, 1967). No matter how desperately you wanted to know, pressing your dumb palm against the glass right where the visitor's hand was pressed on the opposite side, you never would know that feeling, not until they set you free. — Marisha Pessl

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do. — Eduardo Chillida

We always make the mistake we are scared of it. — M.F. Moonzajer

I have drawn things since I was six. All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred and ten, everything
every dot, every dash
will live — Hokusai Katsushika

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. — Eric Hoffer

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do. — S.R. Ford

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures. — Kirk Douglas

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids. — Jodi Picoult