Quotes by category:Tree

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - "this is the Way".

rocks failure tree

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting... by Suzanne Collins

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

Suzanne Collins

waiting tree men

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees. by Suzanne Collins

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

Suzanne Collins

eye forests tree

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree. by T. S. Eliot

Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

purple tree philosophy

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.

successful tree long

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind... by Tamora Pierce

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

rude tree thinking

I fell in love underneath a tree. by Tarryn Fisher

I fell in love underneath a tree.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

Swami Vivekananda

couple tree mean

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

Swami Vivekananda

awakening religious tree

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew... by Ted Hughes

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

stars names tree

Now the seasons are closing their files by Ted Kooser

Now the seasons are closing their files

paper tree wind

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the... by Teresa Heinz

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

roots tree bird

Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.

arrows tree years

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

Thaksin Shinawatra

income tree country

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Swami Vivekananda

leader tree men

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

dream tree song

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Swami Vivekananda

discipline would-be tree

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

childhood tree country

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stu... by Terry Pratchett

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Terry Pratchett

physics couple tree