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Letter "S" » soil
«Little seedlings never flourish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they are continually pulled up to see if the roots are grateful yet»
Author: Bertha Damon
| Keywords:
continually, ever so, flourish, pulled, seedling, seedlings, soil, The Roots
«Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection»
Author: John Powell
| About:
Mankind,
Rejection
| Keywords:
atmosphere, plants, rejection, rejections, soil
«Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.»
Author: William Longgood
| About:
Dawn
| Keywords:
at work, bees, best of all, clings, dew, glisten, glistening, In the Garden, plants, soil, The Garden, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit»
Author: William Temple, Sr.
| About:
Action,
Intention
| Keywords:
gather, intentions, Leave It, seasons, soil, sow, The Seasons
«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»
«He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| Keywords:
calamity, characteristics, hardihood, hardships, mixture, mysterious, soil
«Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Mystery
| Keywords:
corner, examination, fallow, For any, Left Turn, ploughshare, self-examination, soil, turning, winds
«Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.»
«Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.»
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