Blossoms Quotes
221 quotes by 189 authors
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Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all…
— Annie Besant
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and…
— Wang Wei
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With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly…
— Ryokan Taigu
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Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms…
— Paul McCabe
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
— John Ruskin
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Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.
— Henry Kirke White
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances…
— Auguste Rodin
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Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
— Yoshida Kenko
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to…
— John Ruskin
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To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation…
— Rajneesh
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Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall…
— Rajneesh
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According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If you are aware,…
— Rajneesh
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