Beauty, German Proverb

Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

- German Proverb

Advice, Mark

The Mustard Seed

It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.

+ Gospel of Mark 4,31-32

http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/4

Tinted autumnal leaves in Korea

Advice, Mark, New Testament

Seed Grows of Itself.

This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.

+ Gospel of Mark 4,26-29

http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/4

Advice, Western Proverb

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

- Western Proverb

Autumn leaves in Korea

Advice, Western Proverb

An onion will not produce a rose. - Western Proverb

Love, LEE Hi

Every rose has its thorn.

- LEE Hi, Rose

Happiness, Western Proverb

Every rose has its thorn.

- Western Proverb

Chrysanthemum in Fall

Wisdom, Western Proverb

Painted flowers have no scent.

- Western Proverb

Autumn, Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Love, Portuguese Proverb

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.

- Portuguese Proverb

Autumn, Mitchell Burgess

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

- Mitchell Burgess

Wisdom, Western Proverb

If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.

- Western Proverb

Buckwheat flowers in Bongpyeong

Change, Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)