Best roots & cutting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties, and traditions. We had grown so tall we thought we could afford to cut the roots that held us down, only to discover that the tallest trees need the most elaborate roots of all.”

Needs Cutting Tree Century Pride Tradition Roots Ties Tall Interconnection Rootedness

Author:Paul L Wachtel

“New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.”

Cutting Return Spring Roots New Beginnings

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.”

Ifs Way Ideas Reality Moving Form Law Order Language Steps Cutting Roots Screens Our Thoughts Validity Groove

Author:Frank Herbert

“To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

Feels Should Mean Might Beautiful Grows Cutting Elements Negative Roots Difficulty Plant Arise Stem Embarrassed Choke

Author:Alain de Botton

“Cut the mind at its root and rest in naked awareness”

Mind Cutting Awareness Roots Naked

Author:Tilopa

“Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.”

Stills Facts Hope Grows Quality Fire Cutting Roots Endure Stubborn Stamps Only Time Urgency Frost Hardy Valiant

Book:And Now Tomorrow

Source: And Now Tomorrow

“See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.”

Looks Heart Religion Powerful Cutting Tree Morality Fairs Roots Skins Lays Core Command Apples Knives Pruning

Author:Nathaniel Culverwell

“Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.”

World Facts Past Lying Humanity Natural Cutting Modern Roots Our Past Alienation Natural World Adrift

Book:Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

Source: Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

“The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.”

Years Facts Cutting Roots Venezuela

Author:Isabel Allende

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.”

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing, but the roots are still here.”

People Has Beens Cutting Growing Tree Fans Roots Originals Canada Somewhere Else

Author:Russell Peters

“A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.”

“If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Wisdom Action Desire Evil Wish Results Cutting Divine Crosses Roots Intention Ruins Islamic Inward Wrath

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

Stills Sometimes Cutting Written Roots Poetry Is

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.”

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”

Men Believe Desire Passion Cutting Lows Roots Stronger Rate Rage Breasts Prize

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”

Has Beens Moving Used Cutting Roots Come Up Chess Boards Association Knights Good Writers Pawns

Author:Ezra Pound

“Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.”

Long Made Home Might Able Lasts Given Known Cutting Brother Reflection Roots Warrior Despise Making Peace Legendary Residence Grimm Quinn

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”

Thinking Men Heart Done Use Seems Would Be Easy Process Cutting Roots Sticks Wounds Conversion Saving Ties Branches Strings Smooth Sap Easy Going Grafting

Author:John Bunyan

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.”

Ifs Way Looks Persons Order Spirituality Belief Accepting Enemy Greater Pieces Cutting Trouble Acceptance Roots Manifestation Remove Accepting Yourself Laos Lao Tzu

Author:Rajneesh

“Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.”

Born Sin Cutting Goes On Roots Unconsciousness Pruning Sleepiness

Author:Rajneesh

“When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.”

Looks Dies Sides Differences Emotion Cutting Sadness Roots Starvation Watchers

Author:Rajneesh

“There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.”

Desire Freedom Consciousness Cutting Revolution Roots

Author:Rajneesh

“'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.”

Want Trying Stills Today Past Father Sin Doubt Cutting Holy Prove Roots Yesterday Confession Bishops My Past Prove It Past Life Augustine Hippo

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.”

Truth Cutting Violence Roots Angry Guilty Trifles Non Violence Ahimsa

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society. Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.”

“I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.”

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