Sap Quotes

• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Iron

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• General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Roots, Tree, Principles

  "Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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• I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Witty

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• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Family, Witty

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

  George Eliot

  Growth, Bud, Consciousness

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.35

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• The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

  Robert Fortune

  Branches, Flow, Sides

  Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Woods, Way, Certain

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Vices, Cost, Sacred

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

  Tom Rath

  Energy, Ruins, Hours

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.21, Missionday, LLC

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• We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.

  Darren Hardy

  Powerful, Fate, Past

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 02, 2014

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  As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Artist, Simplicity

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  John Muir

  Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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• Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Boredom, Mind, Superficial

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Regret, Fall

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• Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

  Max Lerner

  Rights, Mind, Principles

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• Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

  George Packer

  Country, Democracy, United States

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• Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one's work. It cuts down ability. A man cannot get the highest quality of efficiency into his work when his mind is troubled. The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. A troubled brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, and logically.

  Orison S. Marden

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  Orison S. Marden (2017). “Pushing To The Front”, p.776, Noodle-Doo Studios

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.

  Jules Furthman

  Death, People, Funeral

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Ease, Kind

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, People, Mind

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• Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Healing, Heart

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Angel, Garden, Wings

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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