Lotus

species of plant

Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is sometimes colloquially called a water lily, though this more often refers to members of the family Nymphaeaceae.

My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong through my work. I keep saying, the more muck you throw at me, the brighter will the BJP lotus bloom. That is the nature of the lotus, it rises out of kīchaṛ (slush) to create exquisite beauty. ~ Narendra Modi

Quotes

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  • Oh! what are the brightest that e'er have blown
    To the lote-tree, springing by Alla's throne,
    Whose flowers have a soul in every leaf.
  • Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light.
    • Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power (2012)
  • My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong through my work. I keep saying, the more muck you throw at me, the brighter will the BJP lotus bloom. That is the nature of the lotus, it rises out of keechhad (slush) to create exquisite beauty.
    • Narendra Modi in interview 2013, quoted from Kishwar, Madhu (2014). Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. p.164
  • Sikander burnt all books the same wise as fire burns hay. All the scintillating works faced destruction in the same manner that lotus flowers face with the onset of frosty winter.
    • About Sikandar Butshikan. Srivara, Zaina Rajtarangini.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 463.
  • Where drooping lotos-flowers, distilling balm,
    Dream by the drowsy streamlets sleep hath crown'd,
    While Care forgets to sigh, and Peace hath balsamed Pain.
  • The lotus flower is troubled
    At the sun's resplendent light;
    With sunken head and sadly
    She dreamily waits for the night.
  • Lotos, the name; divine, nectareous juice!
    • Homer, Odyssey, Book IX, line 106. Pope's translation.
  • Stone lotus cups, with petals dipped in sand.
  • They wove the lotus band to deck
    And fan with pensile wreath their neck.
  • A spring there is, whose silver waters show
    Clear as a glass the shining sands below:
    A flowering lotos spreads its arms above,
    Shades all the banks, and seems itself a grove.
  • The Lotos blooms below the barren peak:
    The Lotos blooms by every winding creek:
    All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone:
    Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone,
    Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is blown.
  • In that dusk land of mystic dream
    Where dark Osiris sprung,
    It bloomed beside his sacred stream
    While yet the world was young;
    And every secret Nature told,
    Of golden wisdom's power,
    Is nestled still in every fold,
    Within the Lotos flower.
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