a bud QUOTES

1 " A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. "

― Gaston Bachelard

2 " And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. "

― Anaïs Nin

3 " Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower. "

4 " And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud became more painful that the risk it took to blossom. [likely not Anaïs Nin; look under " Disputed quotes" on the Wikiquote page for her] "

5 " The picture enclosed here is of a hibiscus that has been flowering in the parlor window one bloom at a time for what seems like a year or more. It’s getting to where I don’t remember when there wasn’t a bud or two and a flower either out or on the way.

This morning there is a fresh new flower just like the one in the picture, but right next to it is the one that was new yesterday and is already spent. I don’t know whether to be happy for the beautiful one or sad for the one that is gone. I guess if I wait until tomorrow I can be sad for the one that is so beautiful now. But how can I anticipate being sad for something that is so pretty?

It’s really a good thing that people can only “see” the present because we are on the same train as a hibiscus except that we are on a longer trip.

I’ve told you before but it fits in here so I will say it again. Sometimes I get feeling so good that I get afraid to anticipate the loss. If life could be a series of beautiful scenes and beautiful music and pleasant visits with people we love, then life should just go on forever. I suppose that’s why people get old and feeble with wandering minds. What is can end without too much loss, and what was did not stop so will be forever. Right now and as far as I can see, I want to be this morning’s flower. I’ll be a hibiscus. You be a rose… "

― M. Reed McCall , Moose Tracks on the Road to Heaven

6 " A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach. "

― J. Krishnamurti

7 " Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked. "

― Julie Anne Long

8 " A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience. "

― Laura Lam , Shadowplay (Micah Grey, #2)

9 " And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. "

― Jen Sincero , You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

10 " There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue's hand gently. " It's better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us. "