Lotus Mud Quotes

#1. From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

Carolyn Marsden

#2. There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

Shane Claiborne

#3. Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

Amit Ray

#4. One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

Will Advise

#5. (E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup
if any.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.

Paul Stanley

#7. The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.

Lisa See

#8. Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Suzy Kassem

#9. We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

#10. A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)
Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)
And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

Francois Hollande

#12. All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

Sebastian Junger

#13. There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Rajneesh

#15. Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Samuel Johnson

#16. Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

Dalai Lama

#17. Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life's experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

Debbie Ford

#18. The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#20. Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light.

Amit Ray

#21. Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Rajneesh

#22. I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost in mist and fog I rest happily in this place At dusk the tree shadows are low I look into my mind A white lotus emerges from the dark mud

Hanshan

#23. Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

Francois Rabelais

#26. Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

Kelly Wearstler

#27. To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

R.C. Sproul

#28. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Dan Brown

#29. If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering

Nhat Hanh

#30. Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.

Suzy Kassem

#31. Lotus flowers blossom while rooted in mud, a reminder that beauty and grace can rise above something ugly.

Lisa Genova

#32. Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. - THICH NHAT HANH

Thich Nhat Hanh