Ripe Quotes

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking in an oven. The breath of the wheat and the sweet clover passed him like pleasant things in a dream.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Pauca sed matura. (Few, but ripe.)”
― Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big,
laid out like ripe fruit
make you want to stay?”
― Andrew McMillan

“Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for you which can easily ripe for decay!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of maturity of what you have planted.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Why didn't I feel like this when we were actually together?"
"Maybe... maybe your mango wasn't ripe."
I squinted at Cat. "I'm not following. You're going to have to take me there."
"There's a part in You've Got Mail when Kathleen and Joe have been hanging out together. Joe knows their online identities, but she doesn't. And they go to the farmers' market, and before parting ways she says, 'I hope your mango's ripe,' and he gives her this considering look and tells her that he thinks it is."
"That is a very obscure reference."
"The point is, the mango was a metaphor for their relationship. He'd waited until she'd grown and softened under the sunlight, and once she'd gotten there, he made his move---both before and after revealing his identity.”
― Hillary Manton Lodge, Together at the Table

“Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Why harvest before the fruits gets ripe?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach was radiant, dusky rose and gold, its skin so plush she thought her fingertip might bruise it. This was the day, the very hour to eat- and she had come prepared, but she didn't want Concepcion to see her. She waited until the housekeeper shouldered her leather-handled canvas bag and left.
Then Jess unwrapped the organic peach she'd bought that morning. Slightly smaller, slightly harder, but decently rosy, the peach listed left- just the right direction- when she set it on the table.
Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand and wet the inside of her wrist. She had forgotten, if she'd ever known, that what was sweet could also be so complicated, that fruit could have a nap, like fabric, soft one way, sleek the other.”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“The biggest thing that Stephen Hawking taught me is that an extremely sickly and sedentary person can live to the ripe old age of seventy six.”
― Steven Magee

“When the time is ripened,

Grace you shall receive!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“You are reaping today what you have sown in the past and what you sow today would be ripe in the future. You are the seed of tomorrow. It is important to know yourself. You must know the minutest details about yourself.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Die Zeit ist reif für das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“A fresh fig is a coy fruit. Fresh figs hide out a bit. Their exterior is sober, matte--- a dignified, often dusky, royal purple. But crack one open, and you have a pulpy, fleshy kaleidoscope of seeds. A ripe fig, like the cheeks of a well-fed child, should give slightly when you squeeze.
Figs make an excellent transition from summer to autumn cuisine. This is particularly useful this time of year in Provence, when we are eating in the garden one day, turning on the heat the next.
Fresh figs are at home alfresco, in a rocket salad with Golden Delicious apples, pine nuts, and picnic cheeses or roasted with slices of Roquefort and a drizzle of honey to begin a fall fireside dinner.”
― Elizabeth Bard, Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes