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planting QUOTES

61 " A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future "

62 " Don't bring me the stars from the sky,
I'm planting sunshine in my backyard. "

― Sanhita Baruah

63 " Easy…kelis,” he whispered, sweat beading his brow. “I want to savor this moment. And this…” Darién licked over Jenera’s lips with his tongue, planting small kisses at each corner before trailing over to her ear and he nibbled on her lobe. “I will fire you gently, simmer you sweetly,” he breathed, smiling against her throat. “And burn you completely. "

― Beth Mikell , The Nysein: Salvation

64 " Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

65 " Sometimes your garden surprises you. You don't remember planting strawberries or mint, but there it is, rising up in the middle of the carrot patch. Maybe the seeds blew in from the neighbor's garden. Or maybe they were buried in the dirt and you unearthed them when you tilled the soil. Or maybe you're reaping what you've sown. However it happened, you now have unexpected bounty. Accept it with gratitude. "

― Lisa Brown Roberts , How (Not) to Fall in Love

66 " Honestly, Evie," I huffed, flopping back to the centre of my bed and glaring at the ceiling. " Why don't you whine some more instead of actually doing anything?" " Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness," Arianna volunteered, leaning on the frame of my open door." Yeah, so's seeing things no one else can, but people seem to like that about me." " Good point. Odds are, you've been crazy for years now. I'm probably nothing more than a figment of your imagination." " If that were true, I'd imagine you as less of a slob." She sighed. " Isn't it sad that you hate yourself so much you can't even dream up a pleasant roommate?" " Not as sad as the fact that you admit how bad you suck as one." Flashing a wicked grin, she narrowed her eyes. “ I'd use the term 'suck' sparingly around me.  Don't want to go planting ideas in my pretty,  dead head." I threw a pillow at her. "

67 " As long as the earth remains, there will be day and night, planting and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter. These cycles shall never ceased. Genesis 8:22 "

68 " Overcoming the problems we face today and planting the seed of peace is not a task for any one nation, people, or religion. This will be possible only when spiritually awakened people from every corner of the world share the power of a single vision and create an alliance of Earth-Humans. "

― Ilchi Lee , Magos Dream: Meeting with the Soul of the Earth

69 " Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them. "

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

70 " The administration often used the analogy of planting the “seeds of democracy” in the Middle East, as if they’d sprout into democratic regimes as nature took its course. Democracy doesn’t sprout like apple trees. Scattering the seeds isn’t enough, no matter how many soldiers do it. To continue with the gardening analogy the Bush administration seemed to love (there were also many “seeds of terror” and “seeds of hope”), democracy is more like a fragile flower that requires constant attention and the right soil. Dictatorships and fascist regimes are hardy weeds that sprout on their own. "

― Richard Engel , And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

71 " I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don't have to think at all. It's like I just put my brain in a locker before I start work and pick it up on the way home. I spend seven hours a day at a workbench, planting hairs into wig bases, then I eat dinner in the cafeteria, take a bath, and of course I have to sleep, like everybody else, so out of a twenty-four-hour day, the amount of free time I have is like nothing. And because I'm so tired from work, the 'free time' I have I mostly spend lying around in a fog. I don't have any time to sit and think about anything. Of course, I don't have to work on the weekends, but then I have to do the laundry and cleaning I've let go, and sometimes I go into town, and before I know it the weekend is over. I once made up my mind to keep a diary, but I had nothing to write, so I quit after a week. I mean, I just do the same thing over and over again, day in, day out. "

― Haruki Murakami , The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

72 " There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart. "

― M.F. Moonzajer , LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

73 " We must plant our dreams in real earth. We must dirty our hands. It's the only way. Whether we dream of planting flower gardens or churches, ever dream needs a place in which to take root and grow. Every dream needs a home. "

― Christie Purifoy , Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

74 " [W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay; "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

75 " Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition. "

― , Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity

76 " Kate tracked Barnes down to the potting shed, where he was planting up some seedlings into clay pots. He looked up as Kate entered and gave her a slow half smile once he knew she was unaccompanied." So you can't leave me alone, Miss? Must be my devastating charm. I'm not so sure it's safe for you to be alone in the potting shed with me though. "

77 " Manuel acquired as much land as he could afford and refused to sell it to anyone, even if he was not planting anything on it.
“La tierra no se acaba” (“the land does not perish”), he often said. "

― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini , Antonio's Will

78 " Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, told how Rogers gave him advice in handling an educational campaign in tree planting.'Will Rogers told me,' said Pack, 'that I was on the wrong track in trying to educate people to the value of putting idle land to work growing trees. " Pack," he said, " you go down to Washington and get Congress to pass a law prohibiting tree planting and you'll have everybody doing it in a week. "

79 " What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict. "

80 " In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death. "

― , The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt