But the important thing is not the finding. It is the seeking. It is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, because your heart would not have been purified by the long quest. —Umberto Eco More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. —Pericles More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. —Leonardo Sciascia More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. —Moliere More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. —Joyce Kilmer More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that plants trees loves others beside himself. —Dr. Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. —Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. —Charles Dickens More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He plants trees to benefit another generation. —Caecilius Statius More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. —Sir William Osler More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email