“I think that the most beautiful of people are like exquisite serpents— glorious sheen, glorious patterns and elaborate grace— but you do wrong to cast envy upon them, lest you want to also taste of the venom they carry in their mouthes! Beauty is so often born from adversity of circumstance, like the lotus born of the mud, reaching up through the water and into the light! I often wake up from dreams of being underwater, I suppose I am a lotus flower that has made her way! But you do wrong to envy the lotus blossom, for you know not of her journey! Not all of us are serpents and lotus flowers, not all of us are beautiful like that; too many people just sit there, ignorantly casting envy on what they do not even comprehend!” Inspirational QuotesWisdom QuotesEnvyBeautiful PeopleSerpentsLotus BlossomsEnvious PeopleDo Not EnvyFlower Blooming In AdversityBeauty Born Of AdversityBeauty From AdversityFlower Born Of AdversityOvercoming CircumstanceThe Stupidity Of EnvyWhy Envy Is Wrong Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The flower blooming in a tree is not only the child of the roots or the branches or the leaves of that tree, but also the common child of the soil, the rain, the sun and the bees! The father and the mother of every living being is never one father or never one mother but actually the whole universe!” CommonMehmet Murat Ildan QuotesRootsChildTreesLiving BeingFlower Blooming In AdversityFlower Blooms Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan