Best path & flower Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.”

“A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.”

Mind Path Sweet Flower Quiet Sacred Solitary Harvest Perfume Compensation Reap Humbleness

Book:My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons

Source: My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons

“And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”

World Love Is Path Blood Flower And Love Rulers

Author:Knut Hamsun

“No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.”

Thinking Way Wells Shows Running Purpose Church Path Blood Dog Flower Cold Horror Wander Lifting Disrespect Pillars Aisle Paws Gravel

Book:Jacob's Room

Source: Jacob's Room

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.”

Needs Use Earth Water Race Vision Path Clear Flower Mountain Spring Daughter Seasons Excited Multiple Folds

Book:The Less Deceived

Source: The Less Deceived

“Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.”

Way Littles Moments Earth Path Flower Rain Everyday Opening Streams Smallest

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

Culture Found Grows Chance Pleasure Growing Up Path Flower Seeds Unexpected Sparks Gladness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.”

Problem Lasts Past Evil Path Flower Destruction Giants Secular Blossoming

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.”

Turns Nations Virtue Path Blood Flower Refuse

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.”

Might Common Path Too Much Trouble Sweet Flower Comfort Happenings Delight Abstract Unusual Unusual Things

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.”

Walks Path Feet Flower Bears Naked Soil Diamond Sweetest Bleeding

Book:Aunt Jane's hero

Source: Aunt Jane's hero

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

“Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.”

Loses Path Flower Western Snow Buddhist Tibetan Tibetan Buddhist

Author:Tenzin Palmo

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