The lightning said to the oak tree: -˜Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
– Idries Shah
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- There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. – Kahlil Gibran
- You know, that’s what you’ve been doing in a way–coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. – Jennifer Niven
- Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning! – JRR Tolkien
- Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you. – Toni Sorenson
- Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An acorn is an oak tree inside out. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree. – Chris Tinniswood
- When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy. – Sandra Harner
- Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. – Idries Shah
- When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike. – SM Stevens
- Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. – Idries Shah
- If ignorance is on the march, stand aside and let it pass you by. – George Scott Wilkie
- Stand strong. Stand firm. Stand tall like tower. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
- It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. – Idries Shah
- The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
- Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
- The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. – Flannery OConnor
- Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. – GK Chesterton
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. – Edward Abbey
- Tree is tree. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- If the tree doesn’t hug you back, it’s not a problem with the tree, it’s a problem with your heart. – Donald L Hicks
- The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree……unless that tree’s growing on top of a hill. – John DePrey
- A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- We spring from one great tree of life; when the root of the tree is watered with love, we all thrive. – Janet Autherine
- A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When you healed this tree, I felt like the leaves waved and made gentle sounds. Maybe the tree was saying thank you. – Korharu
- Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE! – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
- You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. – Malcolm X
- If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come – Hamza Akhtar
- Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes. – Janet Evanovich
- There were cracked head stones, dead flowers and weeds coming through the ground. Even the trees looked lifeless. –The Body By the Tree – Yawatta Hosby
- That’s when I realized the chill wasn’t coming from outside-”it was coming from within me. – Amanda Hocking