Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island… — Rajneesh
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful… — Walter Scott
The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed… — Charles Heiser
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around… — Henry Ward Beecher
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan. — Hamid Karzai
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and… — Ezra Pound
My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of… — Mitch Hedberg
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! — Thomas Parsons
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha… — Dogen
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we… — Jane Austen
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Kathleen Raine
In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ... — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making… — Rumi
The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. — Rumi
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around… — Henry Ward Beecher
For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf. — Maturin Murray Ballou
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this… — John Milton

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