Leafs Quotes
394 quotes by 313 authors
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The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
— Charles Dickens
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If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much…
— Vusi Mahlasela
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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
— William Butler Yeats
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
— Hamid Karzai
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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
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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
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Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
— Thomas Parsons
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.
— Rumi
Who Wrote These Leafs Quotes
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