#blossom

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#blossoms #byrds #difference #gin #lot

I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#friend #god #i #me #said

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. ↗

— Yoshida Kenko

#cares #heart #nothing #scattered #touch

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#blossom #contend #culture #flourishing #flowers

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#blossoms #fruit #life #like #love is

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. ↗

— Sophocles

#dies #mistrust #trust

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ↗

— Max Muller

#blossom #cannot #flower #live #man

Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies ↗

— Reikan

#haiku #plum-blossoms #beauty

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#celebrate #comfort #death #importance #now