“When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.”

“Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.”

“Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”

“Let him not boast who puts his armor on
As he who puts it off, the battle done.
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel.
Not every blossom ripens into fruit.”

“The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit.”

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

“With cruell tusks a savage boar imploys,
Who all king Œneus' fertile fields destroys:
The stately trees tore from their fiber'd roots,
Silver'd with blossoms of delicious fruits.”