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May you find great value in these Seed quotes and sayings.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is like a soaring redwood;
Love is the seed that provides the inspiration,
and Fear is the manure that provides the raw energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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