Seeds Quotes - Page 2

• We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

  Saint Dominic

  Catholic

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• Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Flower, Earth

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• You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Buddhist, Flower

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• Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

  E. B. White

  Cutting

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• The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

  Michael Scott

  Dna, Secret, Creation

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• Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Believe, Science

  Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House

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

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Years, Rocks

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• I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

  May Sarton

  Spring, Believe, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Growing Up, Kindness, Spring

  Jeremy Bentham (1834). “Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified”, p.131

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• I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.

  Dr. Seuss

  Boys, May, Knows

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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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• Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Kindness, Eye, Steps

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• A tree says:
  My strength is trust.
  I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
  I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else.
  I trust that God is in me.
  I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Spring

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sowing, Doe, Sowing Seeds

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• Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Lying, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.8, Yale University Press

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• The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Deep Love, Roots

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Giving, Gardening, Endure

  Jekyll, Gertrude (2016). “Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

  Le Corbusier

  Tree, Citizens, Stones

  "The Edict of Chandigarh" by Le Corbusier, 1959.

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• Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

  Novalis

  Soil, Harvest, Poor

  Motto for "Pollen and Fragments" by Novalis, 1798.

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• The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fruit, Understood

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, World, Needs

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• Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Joy, Affliction

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