It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have…

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he…

— Alex Ferguson

“when selflessness is seen in objects, the seeds of cyclic existence are destroyed.aryadeva”

— aryadeva

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

— Anonymous

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade…

— Thomas Chalmers

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything…

— Charles Dickens

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and…

— Anonymous

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any…

— Daniel Tammet

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

— Thomas A. Edison

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

— Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost…

— Gerald Vann

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find…

— Helen Keller

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!…

— Steven Pressfield