Tree Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

  Terrence Malick

  Light, Forgiving, Rays

  "The Tree of Life". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Cutting

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• There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.

  Manly Hall

  Heart, Men, Two

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• The forest waves, the morning breaks,
  The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
  Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
  And life pulsates in rock or tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

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• Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Tree, Fruit, Shakes

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Tree, Males, Crosses

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• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Spring, Tree

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• No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Nature, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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• What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested in this or any season, I invite you to lean on mine. I know this work is God’s very truth, and I know that only at our peril would we allow doubt or devils to sway us from its path. Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Believe, Journey, Flames

  "“Lord, I Believe”". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

  William James

  Islands, Sea, Roots

  "Confidences of a 'Psychical Researcher'". The American Magazine, Vol. 68, 1909.

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• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

  A. E. Waite

  Men, Evil, Tree

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Wind, Knowing

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Two Sides, Tree

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Broken

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

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• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Evil

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• The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Tree, Progress

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

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• Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Past, Tree, Culture

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• The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty person is happy when drinking, and not depressed, because the spring is inexhaustible. You can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring; then when you thirst again, you can drink from it once more.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Spiritual, Spring, Drinking

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• The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Tree, Income

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• We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Defense

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• Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Freedom, Confused

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• Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

  Rob Thurman

  Fall, Hands, Wind

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