The Flower Quotes

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.