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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Nature, Simplicity, Greatness, Observation

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Nature, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Power

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nature, Men, Women, Enemies

"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Nature, Humanity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Nature, Instinct, Law, Rules

"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Nature, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature,

"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Nature, Beauty, Life

"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Spring, Dreams, Joy

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Nature, Man, Want, Will

Explore more quotes by Mercedes Ruehl

"But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted."

Mother, Being, Example, News

"I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them."

Will,

"In this business, you never say no to anything."

Business,

"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."

First, Name

"Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it."

Life, Necessity

"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."

Nature, Will

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain."

People, Choice

"Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good."

Writing,

"Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity."

Society, Time, Identity, Question