“And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.”
Contributed by: George Lewis
Anais Nin
“From the withered tree, a flower blooms”
Zen Proverb
“I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow -- they came from the heart of a great nation.”
Ronald Reagan
“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
Thomas More
“Let one thousand flowers bloom”
Mao Tse-Tung
“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion”