Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
Be fruitful, and multiply.
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
