Acorns Quotes

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

  Aristotle

  Unique, Fulfilled, Humans

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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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• Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

  Patience Strong

  Dream, Reality, Achievement

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• You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Afternoon, Shade

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Destiny, Self, Tree

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• An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Dream, Lying

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

  Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

  Men, Two, Hammocks

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• Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Wrecks, Plant, Seeds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.121, Anamchara Books

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• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Garden, Roaring, Oaks

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

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• Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

  Alan Watts

  Turns, Take Time, It Takes Time

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.24, Sounds True

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Tree

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Marriage, Passion

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

  Tim Cook

  Giving, Shade, Brag

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• Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birth, Breeze, Unnoticed

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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• For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

  Anthony Marra

  Mother, Father, Heart

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Understanding, Inquiry, Honest

  "Come, Join with Us". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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