Best roots & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

May Sometimes Light Sound Moral Materials Roots Wit Cures Maturity Disorder Remedy Trunks Few Words Reformers Antithesis Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.”

World May Persons Said Soul Light Duty Holy Roots Shining Fruit Conception Unseen Sap Tranquillity

Book:The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

Source: The Collected Works of St John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the Liv

“The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.”

World Light Passion Seeing Air Childhood Roots Sight Glasses Strikes Core Senses Mask Barriers Foul Volcanoes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”

Light Form Sound Existence Teaching Modern Activity Roots Ancient Mysterious Manifestation Cycles Electricity Evident Rapids Vibrations Recognise Occult Modern Science

Author:Paul Foster Case

“there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.”

World Kind Two Light Earth Air Roots Folks Seeds Hunts

Book:American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels

Source: American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels

“life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.”

Life Humans Light Earth Life Is Values Dark Human Beings Knowing Mets Spring Roots Sunshine Pushing Greatest Gifts Value Of Life More Knowledge Daffodil

Book:Camilla

Source: Camilla

“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands

“The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.”

Light Darkness Roots Heavy Rulers Tranquil Darkness To Light Hasty

Author:Laozi

“E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.”

War Light Earth Dark Sky Wind Waste Roots Rounds Heavy Storm Wide Golden Grain Agriculture Harvest Rapids Stalking Straws Pluck

Book:Virgil

Source: Virgil

“Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.”

Way Light Suffering Darkness Achieve Ignorance Roots Salvation Diminish Inner Light Inner Darkness

Author:Dalai Lama

“I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.”

Light Tree Roots Deeper I Realized Branches Multiple Dig Deep

Author:Brenda Strong

“The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws are legitimate except God's law, and no government is legitimate except those who rule as God's deputies, implementing God's laws alone, which no-one has the power to change. So I say to you: if you really want to root out corruption now so widespread on God's earth, stand up and fight against corrupt rule; take power and use it on God's behalf. It is useless to think you change things by preaching alone.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Use Light Government Earth Law Fighting Causes Principles Roots Corruption Useless Preaching Behalf Power To Change Root Cause Lordship Deputies Implementing

Author:Abul A'la Maududi

“The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.”

Light Tree Roots

Author:Malcolm X

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

Light Nature Attitude Flower Roots Sunshine Flower Garden Beautiful Flower Deep Roots Love And Flower

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”

Real Light Courses Nature Realizing Tree Roots Plant Branches Stem Magician Bark Foliage Plants And Life

Book:A Life in Photography

Source: A Life in Photography

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”

Ifs Years Mind Said Light Eye Forget Accepting Disease Adults Roots Crisis Painful Proportion Chickens Milk Smallest Adolescence Oxygen Nuisance Light Years Pox This Too Shall Pass

Author:Jodi Picoult

“In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.”

Needs Heart Stills Light Eye Night Grows Black Dark Ready Roots Dawn Shelter Illumination Silk Not Ready Open Eyes

Book:Evening Train

Source: Evening Train

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.”

Men Light Evil Dark Struggle Tree Roots Height

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.”

Source: The Princess Treasury

“One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us to dare the stars, This irresistible, this ancient power Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.”

Life Soul Light Earth Fighting Stars Space One Thing Roots Ancient Dare Urges Rooted Irresistible Comrade Unshakable

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.”

Ifs Men Mean Facts Light Moving Dark Sleep Sin Walks Conscious Roots Originals Clouds Guides Awake Surround Robots Forgetfulness Original Sin Unconsciousness Inner Light Dark Clouds Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.”

Light Certain Sun Planets Moon Roots Stronger Feminine Masculine Governing

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light”

World Hands Light Beautiful Spiritual Heaven Prayer This World Draws Roots Folds

Author:Francis of Assisi

“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”

Light Action Joy Mother Nature Silence Integrity Flow All Things Roots Unity Invisible Mysterious Purity Visible Wholeness Unseen Sweetness Fountain Gentleness Meek

Author:Thomas Merton

“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.”

Needs Art Stills Enough Light Eye Able Space Creativity Emotional Materials Photography Roots Photographer Details Impulse Make Sense Stance Through The Eyes Intersections Observant

Book:New England Days

Source: New England Days

“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”

Real Light Grows Tree Roots Light Of Love

Author:Billy Corgan

“I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.”

Light My Own Knowing Journey Roots Furious

Book:In Mad Love and War

Source: In Mad Love and War

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