Mind Gardening Quotes

#1. I tend the flowers of my mind
Watering our memories as they bloom

Richard L. Ratliff

#2. I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films.

Craig Roberts

#3. Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

Robert Greene

#4. The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

John Green

#5. Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Mirabel Osler

#6. I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food.

Eliza Crewe

#7. To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

#8. We would do well to remember that the success of any struggle depends on the determination of its leaders and the clarity of its purpose, not the doubts of naysayers.

Saree Makdisi

#9. One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.

Edward Augustus Bowles

#10. Phury was the only other possibility, but he was a celibate with a broken frickin' heart. Not really man-whore material.

J.R. Ward

#11. I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us.

Mary Ellen Edmunds

#12. That type of analysis could include data from training staffs and coaching staffs, performance data, and medical data.

Benjamin C. Alamar

#13. You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable

Andrew McMahon

#14. It is the tuning of the universe ... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

Benjamin Zander

#15. Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.

Victor Hugo

#16. Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

Arthur Wallis

#17. In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Allen Lacy

#18. My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

John Hersey

#19. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Laurence Overmire

#20. The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it ...

Augustus William Hare

#21. ... and believed him despite my better judgment. I forgave him despite my misgivings. I loved him just because I did.

C.D. Reiss