Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.
and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.
When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.
Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.
You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.
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