Seeds Quotes - Page 36

• The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

  Kedar Joshi

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Flower, Fall, Winter

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.

  Sue Thoele

  Beautiful, Weed, Gratitude

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.52, New Harbinger Publications

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• Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

  Mary Morrissey

  Doe, Mindfulness, Today

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• The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Gratitude, Sadness, Loss

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• And in that hour,
  The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
  To such gigantic and enormous growth,
  Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
  Hence date the persecution and the pain
  That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
  Regardless of their plaints.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Animal

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.318

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• The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mother, Son, Environmental

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• My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.

  David Plotz

  Years, Alex, Venture

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Flower, May

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

  Ouida

  Fall, Arrows, Scandal

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

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• There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, May

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  Wise, New York, Ocean

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 552-553), 1922.

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• True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Fire, Energy

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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

  Lucretius

  Philosophy, Matter, Nothingness

  "De Rerum Natura". Book I, line 206,

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• I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

  Gangaji

  Reflection, Self, Defense

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Would Be, Ease

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Heart, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Flower, Giving

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• You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

  Ken Kesey

  Apples

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• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  Stephen Dunn

  Rain, Sunset, Animal

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opposites, Benefits, Obstacles

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