To invest in improving and getting to know yourself better. It is the best investment you could ever make and one which you can harvest over lifetimes.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

I embrace and celebrate the color of my skin. Why should I reject the skin color that reflects the work my ancestors did tending to their harvests, creating homes for their families and protecting their lands?

This is the year of sowing seeds; plant intentionally, plant value, plant what you, yourself, would want to harvest.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare. Thus in Thy good time may infinite reason turn the tangle straight, and these crooked marks on a fragile leaf be not indeed THE END

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God takes on their cause. The Mosaic law of the Old Testament is filled with regulations to prevent and eliminate poverty. The poor were given the right to glean- to take produce from the unharvested edges of the fields, a portion of the tithes, and a daily wage. The law prevented permanent slavery by releasing Jewish bondsmen and women on the sabbatical and Jubilee year and forbade charging interest on loans. In one of his most tender acts, God made sure that the poor- the aliens, widows, and orphans- were all invited to the feasts.

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

How can people trust the harvest unless they see it sown?

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker or you make time every month to do volunteer work there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

In seed time learn in harvest teach in winter enjoy.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

When families save they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.