Roots Quotes

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  Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

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• A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

  Amelia Earhart

  Kindness, Spring, Compassion

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• Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

  Confucius

  Branches, Care, Take Care

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• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

  Sengcan

  Understanding, Return

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• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, People, Landscape

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• For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hard Times, Frustration, Rocks

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• Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• I seem restless,
  but am deeply at ease.
  Branches tremble;
  the roots are still.

  Rumi

  Ease, Branches, Restless

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one.

  William Butler Yeats

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Depression

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Tree, Secret

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 27, 2012

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• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

  Frank A. Clark

  Encouragement, Rain, Hard Work

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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• Choices are at the root of every one of your results.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Results

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Running, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 27, 2012

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

  Theodore Roethke

  Nature, Attitude, Flower

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

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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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