Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is."
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Lilies
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Claude Monet
Painter
"It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"The calla lilies are in bloom again."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to.""
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"There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond."
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"God only, who made us rich, can make us poor."
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"Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous."
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"And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white."
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"Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises."
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"I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing."
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"Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish."
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"The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence."
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"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
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"I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form."
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"The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies."
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"Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside"
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"Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath."
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"From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea."
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"The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering."
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"Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you."
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"It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here"
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"Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other."
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"If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night."
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"I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?"
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