Tree Bends Quotes

#1. Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal, upright self.
could that happen to me ?

Carrie Jones

#3. A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.

Emery Lord

#4. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Are you freaking kidding me? You kissed Adrian "freakishly amazingly beautiful, broody, black sheep, I could take your clothes off without ever moving a muscle" Hebert, and he kissed you back?

Lynetta Halat

#6. The LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 13:3

Beth Moore

#7. The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Jeff Bezos

#8. Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Ann Landers

#9. The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Unita Blackwell

#10. Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.

Robert Greene

#11. The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Ramakrishna

#12. Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

Victor Hugo

#14. All of this took about a minute, but time stretches out when you're witnessing an abomination.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#15. Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

Ramakrishna

#16. [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

Cleopatra

#17. RECONDITION YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS

David J. Schwartz

#18. Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

#19. Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

Manny Montana

#20. A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#21. a tree with more fruits bends more.

Jack Canfield

#22. Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.

Nancy B. Brewer

#23. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

#24. You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

Michael Hogan

#25. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Renata Adler