“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
“A snow of blossoms and a wild of flowers.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
Kensington Garden (1722).
“Let the black flower blossom as it may!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIV: Hester and the Physician
“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 174
“The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Letter 185 (to Marion M' Naught) Aberdeen , 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher