A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Disappointments Fertile God Ground Life Makes

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

J. K. Rowling

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Michael Bassey

It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

Staceyann Chin

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

John Legend

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

Natalie Goldberg

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Morgan Parker

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

K. D. Lang

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.