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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. — Gautama Buddha

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. — Carl Lotus Becker

thought much of women; their grace and beauty, blooming like lotus flowers, floating like milkweed on the wind. — Diana Gabaldon

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy — Carolyn Marsden

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout. — Amit Ray

If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. — Kimi Raikkonen

The force of life deep within his chest, a flowering lotus, opened into his consciousness, returning the ancient spark of thought to his mind. — Everet Martins

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. — Christy Turlington

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. — Herman Melville

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life — Dalai Lama

resembling a stylized lotus. Inside the circle, in proportions — Krishna Udayasankar

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are. — Shunryu Suzuki

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death. — Mike Dickenson

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss. — Rupa Goswami

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave. — Edmund White

My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education. — Cari Donaldson

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit. — Flying Lotus

You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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

O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns. — Manmohan Acharya

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. — Swami Vivekananda

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water. — Gautama Buddha

The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine. — Lisa See

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you. — Osho

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. — Heikki Kovalainen

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed. — Gautama Buddha

If wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color
of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe. — Nagarjuna

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. — Ouida

In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman

Ard to trust that after so much had been taken, so much could still be received. — Tatjana Soli

Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time. — Suzy Kassem

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. — Thiruvalluvar

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

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman. — Ram Dass

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of. — Rajneesh

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. — Takashi Murakami

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha

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

When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way. — Brian K. Vaughan

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. — Carl Lotus Becker

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. — Zen

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. — Anita Diamant

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing. — Nita Ambani

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. — Sathya Sai Baba

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand! — Gautama Buddha

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. — Janet Fitch

Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted. — Bhagavid-Gita

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx. — P.C. Cast

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha. — Hakuin Ekaku

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake. — Rabindranath Tagore

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. — Mitch Kapor

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

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are. — Michael Moorcock