Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
Thought is the seed of action.
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts
The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.
She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is.
Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.