A Quote by Khalil Gibran

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Khalil Gibran

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Fame Flower Root

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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese - Poet
January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

Woodrow Wilson

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Carl Sandburg

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

William Stafford

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

Stjepan Hauser

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

William P. Young

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

D. H. Lawrence

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.