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Day
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Quote of the Day
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If a man finds himself
with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf
for some flowers of
narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the
flowers feed the soul.
-- Muhammad
Note: One reader notes that "the
prophet Muhammad spent all his life in Saudi Arabia that
is known as hot desert, and, moreover Saudi Arabia
doesn't have narcissus." Can anyone verify if the
prophet Muhammad (or which Muhammed) really said the
above?
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God is the friend of
silence. See how nature -- trees,
flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the
stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. .
. . We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-- Mother Teresa
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&"Linnea".. . . A plant
of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded,
flowering bur for a brief
space -- from Linnaeus who resembles it.
-- Carl Linnaeus
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A committee is organic
rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a
structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it
flowers, wilts, and dies,
scattering the seed from which other committees will
bloom in their turn.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson
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A root is a
flower that disdains fame.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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I am following Nature
without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe
having become a painter to flowers.
-- Claude Monet
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Reason and happiness
are like other flowers --
they wither when plucked.
-- George Santayana
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Art is unquestionably
one of the purest and highest elements in human
happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the
eye through the mind. As the sun colors
flowers, so does art color
life.
-- John Lubbock
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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
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Art is the unceasing
effort to compete with the beauty of
flowers - and never
succeeding.
-- Marc Chagall
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A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for the coffin.
-- H. L. Mencken
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Reflection is a
flower of the mind, giving
out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same
flower, when rank and
running to seed.
-- Martin Tupper
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Creativity is so
delicate a flower that
praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement
often nips it in the bud.
-- Alexander F. Osborn
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Managers must have the
discipline not to keep pulling up the
flowers to see if their
roots are healthy.
-- Robert Townsend
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Never strike your
wife, even with a flower.
-- Hindu Proverb
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Many eyes go through
the meadow, but few see the
flowers in it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mind I love must
have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons
drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the
chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed
the depth of, and paths threaded with
flowers planted by the
mind.
-- Katherine Mansfield
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If the man who paints
only the tree, or flower,
or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the
king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the
artist to do something beyond this.
-- James McNeill Whistler
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Not only have I found
that when I talk to the little
flower or to the little peanut they will give up
their secrets, but I have found that when I silently
commune with people they give up their secrets also --
if you love them enough.
-- George Washington Carver
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Personality is to a
man what perfume is to a flower.
-- Charles Schwab
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People from a planet
without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such
things about us.
-- Iris Murdoch
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There are strange
flowers of reason to match
each error of the senses.
-- Louis Aragon
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The men of experiment
are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee
. . . gathers its materials from the
flowers of the garden and
of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power
of its own.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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To create a little
flower is the labor of
ages.
-- William Blake
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The world is made of
people who never quite get into the first team and who
just miss the prizes at the flower
show.
-- Jacob Bronowski
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Spring comes: the
flowers learn their colored
shapes.
-- Maria Konopnicka
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To see a world in a
grain of sand, and heaven in a wild
flower; to hold infinity in
the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour -- is
inspiration.
-- William Blake
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You cannot endow even
the best machine with initiative. The jolliest
steam-roller will not plant
flowers.
-- Walter Lippmann
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When I'm finishing a
picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a
flower, or a tree branch -
as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a
thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If
there's a clash, it's bad art.
-- Marc Chagall
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Youth is like spring,
an over- praised season more remarkable for biting winds
than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and
what we lose in flowers we
more than gain in fruits.
-- Samuel Butler
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When you take a
flower in your hand and
really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I
want to give that world to someone else. I want them to
see it whether they want to or not.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe
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