There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

John Muir
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  2. The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. - Steve Maraboli

  3. How would your life be different if… You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day… You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can... - Steve Maraboli

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  5. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Unknown

More Quotes By John Muir
  1. On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.. Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams...

  2. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  3. This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

  4. Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

  5. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

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