Buddhist Flower Quotes

#1. Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Gautama Buddha

#3. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

Djuna Barnes

#4. Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

Kevin W. Pearson

#5. With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

Ryokan Taigu

#6. Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

Gautama Buddha

#8. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

Gautama Buddha

#9. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.

Anonymous

#10. Just as a flower is made only of non-flower elements, Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements, including Christian ones, and Christianity is made of non-Christian elements, including Buddhist ones.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.

Tabitha Suzuma

#12. Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Gautama Buddha

#13. For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Lynda Barry

#14. Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

Marion Woodman

#15. Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Richard Madden

#16. If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

Kirk Cameron

#17. The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.

Karl Pearson

#18. Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

Martha Alderson

#21. To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Gautama Buddha

#22. You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

Jerry Springer

#23. The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

Jackie Schaffer