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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. – George Eliot
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – Sir John Lubbock
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. – Samuel Johnson
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Theresa
Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. – Rabindranath Tagore
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. – William Wordsworth
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. – Washington Irving
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux – American Indian Proverb
A snake lurks in the grass. – Virgil
Be a fountain, not a drain. – Rex Hudler
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it. – Feltham
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. – Kahlil Gibran
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow – The Talmud
Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Get close to grass and you’ll see a star. – Dejan Stojanovic
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. – Anthony Trollope
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. – Cher
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. – Fred Allen
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. – James Russell Lowell
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. – Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. – Rabindranath Tagore
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

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