Gautama Buddha Quotes

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• Not all those who wander are lost.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Lost
  • Wander
  • Those

• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Create
  • Expectations

• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Role
  • Bee
  • Dinosaur

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• Tiggers don't like honey.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Like
  • Honey

• The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Flower

• Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Single
  • Design
  • Flower

• I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men
  • Flower

• Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Flower

• My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

  

  Sue Hubbell
  • Flower
  • Bees
  • Nectar

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Mediums

• You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'Paradise Lost,' 'Henry V,' and 'My Cousin Vinny.' That doesn't mean that you can't enjoy or understand it on an emotional level, free of all allusion, which is the test of any book of fiction.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Free

• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flower
  • Honey
  • Bee