“The past could be jettisoned… but seeds got carried.”
Source: Where I Was From
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Joan Didion 48
American writer 1934Related quotes

“She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.”

“Man's got his woman to take his seed
He's got the power — oh
She's got the need”
"Only Women Bleed" (co-written with Dick Wagner) - Lyrics online http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3929.
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
Context: Man's got his woman to take his seed
He's got the power — oh
She's got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can.
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all.
Only women bleed...

Quoted in [Sumantra Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, http://www.questia.com/read/118148594/kashmir-roots-of-conflict-paths-to-peace, 2003, Harvard University Press, 1]

Variant: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.