Planting Seeds Quotes

• We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

  Peter Yarrow

  War, Moving, Long

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

  Dorothy Day

  Life, Forgiveness, Weed

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• Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Believe, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

  Guy Finley

  Silence, Mind, Way

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 25, 2016

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• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

  Bill Meyer

  Inspiring, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

  Wallace Thurman

  Life, People, Novelists

  Wallace Thurman (1979). “Infants of the spring: a novel”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

  Krishna Das

  Practice, How You Feel, Feels

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2015

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• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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• Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

  Dennis Rainey

  Weed, Selfishness, Stories

  Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey (1995). “Moments Together for Couples: 365 Daily Devotions for Drawing Near to God & One Another”, p.368, Baker Books

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• Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

  Frank Auerbach

  Weed, Teaching, Garden

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• People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Running, Grateful, Heart

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• You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.

  Ray McGovern

  Thinking, Generations, May

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• We're playing those mind games together
  Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
  Playing the mind guerrilla.

  John Lennon

  Games, Insanity, Mind

  "Song: 'Mind Games'". 1973.

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• I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.

  Joe Lando

  Country, Remodeling, Idle Time

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• We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.

  Jenji Kohan

  Easter, Talking, Eggs

  Source: collider.com

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