Leafs Quotes - Page 6

• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

  Julie Gregory

  Fall, Pride, Blue

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

  Rumi

  Morning, Wind, Rose

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• The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Men, Modesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 53 (1819)

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• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

  Charles Dickens

  Scene, Withered, Dreary

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Squash

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Flower, Healing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

  Curtis Joseph

  Loyalty, Hurt, Games

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• Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Blessed, Roots

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Ecosystems, Robins

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• Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

  Sting

  Philosophy, Ocean, Tree

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• Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Night, Wind

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.23

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• I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.

  Dan Savage

  Past, Guy, Advice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.

  Rita Dove

  Notebook, Eye, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Fall, Archer, Thinking

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• It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.

  Michael R. Burch

  Fall

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• A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

  Laura Miller

  Real, Convince Us, Roots

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• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Roots, Bud

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

  Richard Cecil

  Laughing, Spears, Shaking

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• Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Encounters, Brilliant

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.

  Bryan Procter

  Light, Sorrow, Endurance

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• You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

  Martha Graham

  Storm, Technique, Adequate

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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