Roots Quotes - Page 3

• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Patience, Nature

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Wind, Water, Tree

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• I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.

  Graham Hancock

  Believe, Thinking, Creating

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• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

  Plato

  Education, Wisdom, Plato

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• I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

  Paz Vega

  Thinking, Personality, Important

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• Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

  T. B. Joshua

  Pain, Sin, Strikes

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• The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

  Alan Cohen

  Genius, Authenticity, Genuine

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• God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Judging

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• You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Progress, Bud

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

  David Cooperrider

  Success, Failure, Discovery

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 29, 2013

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• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Freedom, Flower

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

  Laozi

  Light, Darkness, Heavy

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• dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

  e. e. cummings

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Childhood, Fatherhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, Abandon

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  Andrew Murray (2009). “Humility”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Pockets, Driven

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• Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Cutting, Tree

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• To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

  Richard Mabey

  Tree, Way, Literal

  Richard Mabey (2013). “The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change”, p.6, Random House

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• Civilization has its roots in the soil.

  Charles Kellogg

  Civilization, Soil

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• For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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• Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

  Andre Malraux

  Struggle, Creation, Form

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• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

  Dick Gregory

  Book, Thinking, History

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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