Quotes On Lotus Flower

#1. 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

#2. I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

Susumu Katsumata

#3. If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

Masaru Emoto

#4. There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Hari Kunzru

#5. Oh, yes! They, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late. Whilst

Bram Stoker

#6. 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

#7. As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

Gautama Buddha

#8. By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Yukio Mishima

#9. Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.

Osho

#10. At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

P.C. Cast

#11. Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

Osho

#12. 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

#13. Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.

Manmohan Acharya

#15. The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.

Heinrich Heine

#16. Fate is but a dying wish ... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

Youka Nitta

#17. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Gautama Buddha

#18. 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

#19. So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.

Rajneesh

#20. Every day, let our words blossom lotus in some one's heart.

Amit Ray

#21. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

Jennifer Niven

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

Amit Ray

#23. His eyebrow is raised again. I wonder if he practices these looks in the mirror. Each one seems perfectly crafted to make a girl want to drop her shorts right then and there.

Jen Frederick

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

Will Advise

#25. The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

Penelope Ann Miller

#26. The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#27. 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

#28. Summer Magic' ... two words that go well together, because summer always means a certain kind of magic to most of us. In fact, I think almost everybody looking back remembers summer times more often than the other seasons.

Walt Disney Company

#29. I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

Amber Frey

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

Amit Ray

#31. Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.

Yasunari Kawabata

#32. The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Berenice Abbott

#33. I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.

Huang E

#34. 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