Fragrant Quotes

120 quotes by 111 authors

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson. — James Boswell
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow… — Dallas Lore Sharp
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent?… — Alice Munro
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness;… — Agnes Repplier
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant… — Horace Mann
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the… — Alexander Carmichael
God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss. — Karen Kingsbury
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. — Rumi
When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and… — George Lillo
In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude… — Sri Chinmoy
Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and… — Patience Gray
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,… — Morihei Ueshiba
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never… — Ruskin Bond
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant. — Rumi
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of… — Mary Karr
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has… — John Bunyan

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