The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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