#seeds

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#bear #grow #only #seeds #self-destruction

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#body #flower #his #liberated #nation

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. ↗

— Vilfredo Pareto

#bursting #corrections #error #fruitful #full

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ↗

— Vilfredo Pareto

#bursting #corrections #error #fruitful #full

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grow #into #look #me #say

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#does #knowledge #seeds #sow #your

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#day #each #harvest #judge #plant

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#bleeds #dark #heart #hide #our