Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.
When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.
Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.
There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth.
Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.