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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Religious, Betrayal, Symbolism

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• The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

  Haile Selassie

  Art, Sacrifice, Tree

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

  Paul Reps

  Unique, Joy, Giants

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• They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.

  Karl Hess

  Spring, Ideas, Choices

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• Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Change, Support, Community

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Honesty, Mistake, Responsibility

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, America, Age

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• The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.

  Anton Webern

  Ideas, Space, Unions

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

  Juliana Berners

  Sports, Mean, Men

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• People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

  Lynn Margulis

  Thinking, People, Earth

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.

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• Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

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• On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

  James Salter

  Writing, Internet

  "James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Growth, Age, Doe

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• Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Perhaps Love, Meditation

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• Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Meditation, West

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Travel, Brother, Men

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

  Thomas Merton

  Nature, Rain, Moon

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• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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