We are all in the business of gardening and farming for the future

• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho
• We are always in the business of gardening for the future. Geshe Michael Roach
• Karma,   Consequences,  Life as farming

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To reap a harvest in the future, you need to plant seeds today

• The only thing that endures over time is the ‘Law of the Farm.’ You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest. Stephen Covey
• I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.  John Wooden
• What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. George Eliot
• Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will. Albert Einstein
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
• Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. Ralph Ransom  
• It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden  
• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. C. Forbes  
• Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• The future,  Preparation

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All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Proverb

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If you’re not happy with your current crop, plant a new crop

• If you are not happy with your current ‘crop,’ it is up to you, starting today, to plant a new crop, to begin doing more of those things that lead to success—and to stop engaging in those activities that lead nowhere. T. Harv Eker

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Judge each day by the seeds you plant

• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
• In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots. T. Harv Eker

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Realise that with every deed, you sow a seed

• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. James Allen
• With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• One person can completely change the character of a country, and the industry of its people, by dropping a single seed in fertile soil. John C. Gifford
• Right action,  Karma

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You sow seeds with your thoughts too

• You are now in the additional business of mental gardening: choosing the seeds or imprints you want to put in your mind by studying which imprints create the things you want to achieve—consciously planting those seeds, and then sitting back to enjoy the extraordinary success that will come to you. Geshe Michael Roach
• Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. James Allen
• My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. Mel Weldon
• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Bill Meyer
• Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. James Allen
• Thinking

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Nourish the seeds you plant…

• Attention is like sunlight and water for a plant. What we pay attention to will grow. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming. Jean Houston

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… but be careful what you nourish them with

• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. Lao Tzu
• Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. Ellen G. White  

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Pull out the weeds (negative thoughts and negative habits) before they take root

• Your mind is like rich soil, and if given sufficient time any problem that comes along takes root like a weed, and then you have the trouble of pulling it out; but if you do not give the problem sufficient time to take root, then it has no place to grow and it will whither away. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• You have now learned that the mind is like a fertile garden and for it to flourish, you must nurture it daily. Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Robin Sharma
• When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Horace Walpole
• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. Dorothy Day
• Don’t water your weeds. Harvey Mackay
• Your life is your garden, your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn’t awesome, you’ve been watering the weeds.  Terry Prince
• A well-kept garden filled with flowers has no room left for weeds to share; the mind keeps out unworthy thoughts when loveliness is dwelling there. Leona Bold Martin
• Negativity,  Pessimism,  Positivity,  Optimism

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Always make sure you’re sowing the right seeds

• Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. Steve Maraboli
• Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest. Mary Morrissey
• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds. Ivanla Vanzant
• Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that is what you reap. Stephen Richards
• Right action,  Right speech

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When you sow a seed, it always takes some time for the results to be noticeable

• Everything has a gestation period, a time period that must pass before things will come into form. If you plant a carrot seed, it takes about seven weeks for the sprout to make its above- dirt entrance. Bamboo, which can grow up to thirteen feet in as little as one week, takes up to seven years to break through the surface of the ground. But for seven long years it looks like absolutely nothing’s happening. Now that takes some commitment. James Arthur Ray
• Imprints works the same as plants, don’t doubt it. Nobody would plant some flower seeds in their garden on Monday, and then stand in the garden all day on Tuesday waiting for their flowers, angry and disappointed when they failed to appear by evening. Geshe Michael Roach

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The same applies to personal growth

• Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. George Eliot
• Growth

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All great things happen in their own time

• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus
• Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. Deborah Chaskin
• The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. Dan Millman
• Great things take time,  Patience

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Your job is to create the perfect conditions for growth – and then to have patience

• We plant, water, and weed the seeds of creativity, but we don’t have the power to make them grow, let alone grow according to our schedule. How it all unfolds is up to God. God’s wisdom will fulfil our deepest intentions once we set them in motion. Our part is to create the perfect conditions for the Universe to flow through us—much like our job is to create the perfect conditions for the garden to grow—but that’s all we can do. God flows through us and develops our gardens according to his own timetable. And thank goodness for that, because God knows and grows better than we do. Sonia Choquette
• The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come. And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does. Robin S. Sharma
• Patience,  Faith,  Trust,  God

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Gratitude and generosity tends to increase the harvest

• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake
• Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. Kent Nerburn  
• We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. Orison Swett Marden
• You must give to get, you must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest. Scott Reed
• Gratitude,  Generosity

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Final thoughts

• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake
• What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart
• Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plan in spring, play all summer, and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? Stephen Covey
• Who works achieves and who sows reaps. Arabian Proverb

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