Seeds Quotes - Page 23

• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Perfection, Earth

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

  Herbert Benson

  Inspirational, People, Mind

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• I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Rushing, People

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.93, Random House

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Home, Heart

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• Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Anton Myrer

  Discipline, Mind, Overcoming

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• I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean.

  Oliver Reed

  Girl, Beach, Oil

  Oliver Reed (1979). “Reed all about me: the autobiography of Oliver Reed”, W.H. Allen

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• Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

  Neil Armstrong

  Country, Destiny, Views

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• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

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• Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?

  Lucas Malet

  Spring, Flower, Bravery

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• The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart, while it seeks the death of the other.

  Thomas Merton

  Hate, Heart, Love Is

  "The Nonviolent Alternative".

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• There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Heart, Harvest

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

  Billy Graham

  Faith, Religious, Flower

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• The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

  Henry James

  Hands, Hints, Stories

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• Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lost Love, Knowing, Tears

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• Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

  Laozi

  Mother, Sex, Heart

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• I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion

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• Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

  Charles Heiser

  Garden, Animal, Agriculture

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• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.

  John Welwood

  Love, Light, Soul

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Lakes, Dust

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• I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Delight

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

  Einar Skjaeraasen

  Dream, Winter, Winning

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