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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

Love, Blessings, Here

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Speak, Effort, Heaven

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

Good, Waiting, Him

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Health, Money

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Learn, Sea, Books

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

Best, Sleep, Person

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

Father, Son, Whole

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Love, Allah, Fire

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

Real, Serious, Here

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden

Help, Others, Here

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu

Yourself, Enemy, Saying

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Love, Away, Tomb

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins

Today, Doubt, Sun

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo Coelho

Beginning, Sacred

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring, Child, Knows

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo

Art, Soul, Shall

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Nature, Power, Human

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz

God, Put, Ordinary

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Bad, Down

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray Bradbury

Journalism, Keeps, Planted

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Rain, Fire

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Through, Enough

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
Ray Bradbury

Religion, God, Universe

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Design, America, Ignorant

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Person, Exist, Subject

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Whole, Able, Everybody

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Speak, Effort, Heaven

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Lost, Capacity

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