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Letter "N" » natural state
«Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.»
Author: Gerald Jampolsky
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Love
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comparison, comparisons, expansion, expansions, extension, measurement, natural state
«Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.»
«Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.»
«Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.»
«Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.»
Author: Adam Smith
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administration, Administration of Justice, barbarism, brought about, lowest, natural state, opulence, requisite, tolerable, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree
«Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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accustomed, disaster, draws, give birth, instability, irresistible, miracle man, Natural Disasters, natural state, place of birth, regarding, scene, tie
«In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
appetites, glorious, imprisoned, imprisons, natural state, natural world, slaves
«Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
natural state, solid
«I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, convinced, impulses, natural state, The Natural
«I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cool it, counteract, dissipate, elasticity, inclination, inertia, natural state, pulley, pulleys, relaxation
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