Top 100 The Flower Quotes
#1. Listening to the bell I feel the afflictions in me begin to dissolve. My mind becomes calm, my body relaxed, and a smile is born on my lips. Following the sound of the bell, my breath guides me back to the safe island of mindfulness. In the garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the winter breeze
A hundred miles away.
Robert Frost
#4. Tell me I am going to be alright," I plead to my Tiger Lily.
"You're not alright," the flower talks back. "You're insane, Alice. Insane!" It spreads it's petals and spits in my face. I am hallucinating again.
Cameron Jace
#5. I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#6. Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
Piet Mondrian
#8. A tomb is a vault, a vault is a home," Mr. Sadlot said casually sniffing the flower in his lapel. "That's where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed." Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp
Robert W. Sweeting
#9. When you smell a flower, where is the smell before you smell the flower? Think about that one.
Art Hochberg
#10. Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
Bertran De Born
#11. The great Sage follows his own nature and not that of society, following the fruit not the flower, he stays with the truth while rejecting the false
Dennis Waller
#12. Behave like the flower; it blooms with its own petals without bothering to take the colour of another flower's petals. You can excel with what you have!
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.
Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.
(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")
Cameron Awkward-Rich
#14. The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.
Lao-Tzu
#15. The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
Argus Hamilton
#16. Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#18. Just pour the tea, just look into the eye of the flower, just sing the song - one thing at a time and
Billy Collins
#19. Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.
Edna O'Brien
#20. The flower that does not smile
at the branches withers.
Rumi
#21. Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. A thing which fades With no outward sign- Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!
Ono No Komachi
#23. Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.
M. Larose
#24. Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.
Banani Ray
#25. The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.
A.D. Posey
#26. Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Phillips Brooks
#27. I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.
Dave Barry
#28. My house burned down
But anyway, it was after
The flower petals had already fallen
Tachibana Higuchi
#29. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
William Cowper
#30. I turned to Thalia. 'I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?'
She sighed. 'Fine. Let's go catch this jerk.
Rick Riordan
#31. Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#32. No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.
Sarvesh Jain
#34. Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Madeleine L'Engle
#35. Thus, the flower exists: its forms and characteristics are inscribed in our mind. But its nature is devoid of any intrinsic existence.
Dalai Lama XIV
#36. They were both in the prime of youth, or even in that season which precedes the prime of youth, the season before the smooth pink folds of the flower have burst their gummy case, when the wings of the butterfly, though fully grown, are motionless in the sun.
Virginia Woolf
#37. Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
#38. Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower's point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring.
Michael Pollan
#39. The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.
Amit Ray
#40. You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#41. The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.
Amit Kalantri
#42. In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From
A.A. Milne
#43. When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
John Vianney
#44. You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
Alan Watts
#47. The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
Matthew Henry
#49. His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.
Edith Wharton
#50. The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
Benjamin Whichcote
#51. Only when the flower vase will be itself in bloom, only then we got the real wonder of poetry
George G. Asztalos
#52. If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
Friedrich Schiller
#53. You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.
Khalil Gibran
#54. Generosity is the flower of our love for the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
Victor Hugo
#56. And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
Khalil Gibran
#58. As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Gautama Buddha
#59. Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Laozi
#60. Modern literature is a north-east wind
a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.
Thomas Love Peacock
#61. The willow is green; flowers are read. The flower is not red; nor is the willow green. Same went for Charlie. Charlie was my friend; he was very nice to me. Charlie was not my friend; nor was he very nice to me.
A.S. King
#62. The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .
Rainer Maria Rilke
#63. He managed not to disturb too much of the flower bed as he tamped soil over the Jaffa Cake box that had taken on the role of hamster coffin so well.
Anonymous
#64. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.
Arthur Ransome
#65. As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.
Amit Ray
#66. This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.
Osho
#67. For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
Thomas Malory
#68. He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
#69. Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold
#70. God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.
Rajneesh
#71. As one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower,
W.B.Yeats
#72. Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
John Piper
#73. The one Jack had picked up was clearly of the flower/nature variety if he was vomiting foliage.
Missouri Dalton
#74. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases.
Haruki Murakami
#75. Our practice is to water the flower in our loved one, and not bring them more garbage.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#76. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#77. Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
#79. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#80. Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
Ovid
#81. How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has gone,
ever I shall find you.
When all is lost and winter comes,
I shall be your spring time.
And memory fades and wilts then,
I shall always find you ...
I shall always find you ...
Laurel A. Rockefeller
#83. Let the soul be drawn out and upward, that God may grant us a breath of the heavenly atmosphere. We may keep so near to God that in every unexpected [100] trial our thoughts will turn to Him as naturally as the flower turns to the sun.
Anonymous
#84. Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Thomas Frank
#85. There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one.
Harry Chapin
#86. As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.
Ellen G. White
#87. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.
Robert Aris Willmott
#89. The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
#90. Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Alexandra David-Neel
#91. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
Rajneesh
#92. Happiness heldis the seed
happiness shared is the flower,
happiness seems to be shared
Jean Racine
#93. Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.
Marcus Aurelius
#94. The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
#96. The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
Dorothea Dix
#97. I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
Elena Ferrante
#98. From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
Lucretius
#99. My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment
Leo Robin
#100. The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
Alexander Pope
