Quotes on Seeds

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The whole fruit is already present in the seed.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.