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When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover. -- Geri Halliwell
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. -- James Thomson
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. -- Nick Hornby
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't. -- Natascha McElhone
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. -- Gwendoline Christie
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. -- Gerald Jampolsky
I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being. -- Hugh Grant
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. -- Michael J. Fox
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. -- John Ralston Saul
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. -- Baruch Spinoza
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. -- Marianne Williamson
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. -- Jessica Lange
Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being. -- Susan Cain
Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful. -- Caitlin Doughty
People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us. -- Montel Williams
In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy. -- Lee Kuan Yew
You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state. -- Victoria Gotti
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study. -- Esperanza Spalding
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering. -- Jill Greenberg
Peace is our natural state of being. -- Laozi
Happiness is a natural state of being. -- Michael Beckwith
Remember that your natural state is joy. -- Wayne Dyer
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind, -- Robert E. Howard
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. -- Murray Rothbard
Being joyful is our natural state of being. -- Deepak Chopra
Happiness is the natural state of our being -- Michael Beckwith
The natural state of a human being is dignity. -- Robert Kennedy
A politician is a man in his natural state -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. -- Sharon Gannon
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies. -- Rachel Caine
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being. -- Morgan Rhodes
We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Health and well-being are the natural state of the body and mind. -- Deepak Chopra
introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness -- Steve Martin
Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be -- Douglas Bloch
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts. -- Lysander Spooner
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. -- Adyashanti
To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in. -- Ellen Langer
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. -- Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know. -- Byron Katie
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. -- Stephanie Perkins
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. -- Ayn Rand
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. -- Terry Pratchett
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state. -- Russell Simmons
In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave. -- Keith Mathison
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion. -- Swami Vivekananda
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural, original state. -- Ramana Maharshi
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. -- Robert E. Howard
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in. -- Esther Hicks
My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group. -- Michael Burry
I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. -- Elle Macpherson
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering. -- Deepak Chopra
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state. -- Honore de Balzac
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. -- H. L. Mencken
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state. -- Lester Levenson
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. -- Blaise Pascal
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness. -- Richard Branson
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you. -- Rhonda Byrne
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost. -- Rajneesh
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. -- Mike Myers
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph -- Robert E. Howard
Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness. -- Mooji
The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate. -- Sam Altman
Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. -- Alice Walker
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. -- James A. Baldwin
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live. -- Esther Hicks
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power. -- Craig Shirley
People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being. -- danah boyd
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. -- Hayden Carruth
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation. -- David Brooks
The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural. -- Arjuna Ardagh
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present. -- Ramana Maharshi
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next. -- James Anthony Froude
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. -- Victor Hugo
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world. -- Michael Shannon
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state. -- Charles Edward Merriam
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. -- Ed Rendell
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. -- Lauren Oliver
Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets. -- John Lynch
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. -- Vernon Howard
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. -- Sharon Gannon
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. -- Michael Shermer
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. -- Roy Barnes
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. -- Adyashanti
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. -- Michael N. Castle
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are. -- Sharon Salzberg
Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural. -- Michael Shermer
We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone. -- Mitsuye Yamada
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it. -- Ronald Reagan
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. -- Eckhart Tolle
Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. -- Anthony de Mello
There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated. -- Deepak Chopra
Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed. -- Seth Godin
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and clearly present to whatever thoughts, sensations, or emotions occur. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation. -- Frank Church
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again. -- Benjamin Rush
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. -- Marcus Aurelius
The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously. -- Eckhart Tolle

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