Leaves Quotes

2444 Leaves quotes by 1664 unique authors

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with… — Gautama Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people… — Gautama Buddha
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads… — Gautama Buddha
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the… — Gautama Buddha
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a… — Gautama Buddha
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire… — Teresa of Avila
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves. — Periander
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the… — Gautama Buddha
If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when… — Mitchell Burgess
After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game — Howard Staunton
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am… — Gabrielle Hamilton
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let… — Karin Lowachee
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears… — Barbara Hambly
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see… — Adyashanti
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or… — Valzhyna Mort
When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves… — Unknown Author
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and… — Charles Dickens
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60. — Linda Evans
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and… — Stephen Leacock
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. — Mason Cooley
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in… — John B. S. Haldane
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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